DRESS BILL LIMITS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8362, 24 February 1913, Page 5

DRESS BILL LIMITS

JUDGE’S GUIDE FOR HUSBANDS. Judge Lindley Garrison, whose wife enjoys the reputation of being the bestdressed woman in Jersey City, recently delivered in the Court of Chancery, New York, a sartorial verdict which has aroused widespread comment and heartfelt approval on the part of thousands of harassed husbands. The case before him was that of Mrs George Holton, who was recently separated from her husband. She applied for an order increasing her alimony on the ground that on her present allowance she could not clothe herself becomingly. After hearing the applicant, the judge decreed that tho following prices represented tho utmost any husband could be asked to pay for his wife’s clothing:

The applicant wanted a walking dress costing £7 and a cloak costing £lO 10s, and averred that her corsets must be specially mad© for her at a cost of 225. “ I am well aware,” said the judge, “ that women commonly spend £ls to £2O for a dress in which to go to bridge parties and cause their sisters to turn green with envy, but it is no part of a husband’s duty to provide means for causing unhappiness to other women. Tho dresses and cloaks I have seen advertised in shop windows at the prices I have named are amply becoming. Four shillings will buy corsets that will set off a woman’s figure most engagingly. For eight shillings a truly magnificent pair can be obtained. The application is dismissed.”

i. s. d. Walking dress .... 4 0 0 Cloak .... 3 12 0 Boots .... 0 16 0 Corsets .... 0 4 0