"A Bit of Scrim!”
WOMAN’S EVENING DRESS. LITTLE TO BE IMAGINED. [By Electric Telegraph-Copyright] Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8.0 a.m.) Loudon, May 21. Miss Violet Schmitz obtained before the King’s Bench £SOO damages from the publishers of “Modern Life” for an undefined libel. In referring to Miss Schmitz’s dress at a dance club at Brighton, thei paper said: “Its absolute transparency left little to the. imagination. It was a bit of scrim. The more modestly-minded guests literally held their breath.” Miss Schmitz gave evidence that the dress was made by her usual dressmaker under her mother’s superintend, enev.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 26, 22 May 1914, Page 5
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100"A Bit of Scrim!” Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 26, 22 May 1914, Page 5
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