MILADY'S BILL

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 104, 29 October 1925, Page 13

MILADY'S BILL

A DAY AT THE RACES | OUTLAY ON 'FROCKS. (FROU OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) SYDNEY, 15tli .October. It is estimated that Ladies' Day at Bandwick—one of the features of the Spring Racing Carnival—attracted no fewer than 20,000 of the feminine element. It is estimated that, for the display by these women of the very latest spring fashions, the outlay on frocks, hats, shots and stockings, bags, gloves, and lingerie ran into the tidy little sum of £220,000. This is apart from etceteras such as shingles, shampoos, marcel waves, manicures, faco massages, and motorcur hire. It is safe to say, according tea woman writer, who has delved into tlio question in detail, and in a column article in one of the afternoon papers, that the cost incurred by these 20,000 women for the visit to Kandwiek on ladies' day ran into the neighbourhood of a quarter of a million sterling. Tire spring gowns are ! put down at the very low average of o,2;ns apiece, which makes a total of 100,000gns. So much for tho frocks. Then there is the little matter of hats. The majority of the.newest-and smartest hats worn, were "Bangkok, in all -colours. Heal Bangkoks are not to be had under three or four guineas, so it is said, but .the writer, to be on the conservative side, has put the hiits worn for the occasion at an average of a. guinea and a half each, which accounts ■ for another 30,000 guineas. Then there wore shoes and stockings. Here, again, the writer does, not make, an extravagant estimate., for she takes into consideration those who had to compromise with cheap artificial silk stockings.. Under those heads, shoes and stockings, ■10,000 guineas arc accounted for. The gloves worn for the occasion, calculating again on the conservative side, arc put down at half a guinea a pair. Bang goes another 10,000 guineas.! Then there are handbags, which, even at a guinea each, account for another 20,000 guineas. But this is all top-dressing. It does not account for such tilings as jewellery and siinshailnS, or for silken lingerie, which, it. is reckoned, accounted for

another 20,000 guineas. 'Phis, of course, is apart from all the money thai, went into the totalisator and the bookmakers' bags. "'Many a piece of blade moire (whatever that is) cuddled under the arm," tho writer adds, "cost wore than hundreds of women spend on all their dollies in a month,"