The President of the Board of Trade (Mr Dalton) mentioned in the House of Commons the other day that the suit of clothes he was wearing on that occasion was made in 1930, says an English paper. But twelve years is nothing compared with some achievements in the past. Two of the wealthiest dukes of the Victorian era would have thought that a very short time Of one of them it used to be said that when he had got what he considered really worth-while wear out of his clothes he had them altered for his footmen. The other, the eighth Duke of Devonshire, expected even more of his clothes. In the year 1893, after a Levee, he asked casually how long it was since 1866. His reason for asking was that the coat he was wearing had been made in that year. And his biographer tells us that “he wore a certain found hat so disgracefully long at race meetings and elsewhere that four and twenty ladies, it is said, conspired each to send him a new hat of the same species on the same day.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 November 1942, Page 3
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