DO THEY WEAR THEM?
AIjDDEBX GIBE'S MAYS. ** JUDGE AND BRACES. LONDON. Nov. 17. •*A working-girl buying silk stockurns at B.s lid a pair! Scandalous!” exclaimed Judge Cravlord m the Edmonton County Court, dismissing a draper’s claim against a laboreY for goods supplied to the laborer’s daughter. " “Glove* cost os, shoes 20s. a hat 14$ and a coat £o os,’ lie added. A fool shocked that a working-girl’s clothes should cost so much, but- it onlv shows the modern girl's tendencies.” ~ , , As the bill included braces the judge admitted that it might Inn e been for the father, but lie said he was not so sure, as no did not know “what underclothes girls wear nowadays.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10450, 3 December 1927, Page 4
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