£1400 FOR DRESS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 98, 2 May 1913, Page 3

£I4OO FOR DRESS.

MRS’. TAFT’S REIGN AT THE

WHITE HOUSE

'! 1 >- ■ ‘ r ' HER SUCCESSOR’S ECONOMY

Mrs Woodrow Wilson, the mistress of the White Housed is an outspoken opponent of extravagance in dress, and prior to the inauguration stated that she was making no attempt to acquire an elaborate wardrobe “for my ■ Washington debut.” . - She was asked if she regarded £2OO a year a sufficient sura for a woman in societj*' tc dress on, and replied: “£■3oo a year, why I have'never spent anything' like that amount of money o.t my'Clothes .” This reply has been the sub'eot o* much commentvhiiibng the fashionable women of Washington, who express the unanimous opinion that Mrs "Wilson will find herself obli.njl greatly to augment her expenditure on dress before she occupies the White House many months. “Mrs Wilson n ay he able to do it, but we cannot,” was the general opinion.

THE LIKING FOR CLOTHES. According to a close friend of Mrs Taft a mistress of the White House cannot ravage .with doss, than the following outfit:— i< "i.: i.:u £ Ten evening gowns, at £6O ... 600 fVu- street drosses''e&dh ‘ season, at an average of £lO, makson at £2O * each ... 160 Two afternoon dresses each season, at £2O e'ach ’ " 160 Three afternoon reception gowns l each season, at £ls 1 ..i 180 Hats, glover, etc" ... 1 ... "300 Total ... ’ r ’ ■'... ... £I4OO Mrs Wilson’s only comment on this estimate, is: ‘My daughters and myself a"e a jiot ,iond of clothes in the sense that many women are. Ido not deprecate, the liking for good Mother by any w<rre>". but I am k/-

fectly sure that ladies who spend a |arge portion of their time in shopping for pretty things and standing hours to bo fitted will not find real happiness.

“I like to' ho tastefully gowned, hut I think that, a woman. would .acquire real happiness freeing interested in things much,more .worth while.”