THE LADY P. C.
“DAILY MAIL’S” ARGUMENT. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, June 11. Miss Margaret Bondfield, as the first woman Privy Councillor, can only assex-t her rights to equal recognition with the men if she goes to the King’s levees in velvet knee-breeches and a cocked hat. “That,” says the. “Daily News,” “is at present the only solution of the problem which her appointment creates. The responsible officials are hoping that the occasion will not arise when they will have to tell Miss Bondfield that she may have entered the Qibinet, but that the King’s levees are such a male province that she can only attend in male guise, as the levee dress, is the only costume recognised.”
On the other hand, Mr Austin Hertslett, an Official of the Lord Chamberlain’s Office, and a leading authority on Court dress, and also the author of a text book thereon, says: “Kt. Hon Bondfield. when attending Court functions would wear a woman’s usual Court dress, as there has been no ruling regarding the unprecedented question of a woman Privy Councillor’s uniform.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1929, Page 5
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181THE LADY P. C. Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1929, Page 5
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