WOULD NOT BE RUDE

Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1889, 27 April 1928, Page 5

WOULD NOT BE RUDE

IT ATS OR MILLINERY? MODERN WOMAN’S 11EAD(! EAR (Per Press Association), Auckland. April 2(>. "Dressmakers are tradeswomen, lint: milliners are artists.” declared the head of a city business dealing in women’s clothing, in evidence before the Arbitration Court to-day. "Milliners are artists?” mused Mr .Justice Frazer. "L expect that is why their works are known as creations.” The witness agreed. "Rut I lane is no millinery to-day.” he added. "Women wear hats.” His Honour: Rut r thought they were one and the same- 1 "There is no cre.ation in the.liats women wear to-dtiy,” he declared. "They wear very fine clothes, hut its for their hats—there is no creation, nothing of tin* artist." Mr A. L. Monfeith (workers’ representative on the Court): Married men should he pleased. Looking at. the headgear of the only woman in the Court witnesses described if as being "a hut. not, a creation.” "I dont think I will he so rude as to pass a comment.” Mr Justice Frazer retorted.