BREECHES OR DRESS?
AWKWARD DILEMMA FOR LADY fcABINET MINISTER.
STRICT REGULATIONS FOR KING’S LEVEES. WHAT CAN MISS BONDFIELO WEAR?' United Press Assn, by El. Tel. Copyright. (United Service.) (Received June 11,' 7.50 p.m.) LONDON, June 11. The Rt. Hon. Margaret Bondfield, as first Woman Privy Councillor, can only assert her rights, to equal recognition with men if she gees to the King’s levees in velvet knee breeches and a cocked .hat. That, says the “Daily News,” is at pr c sent the onlj/ solution of the problem which her appointment creates. Responsible officials are hoping tho occasion will not arise when they will have to ten Miss Bondfield she may have entered Cabinet, but that levees are such a male province, that she can only attend in male guise, as levee dress is the only costume recognised.
On the other hand, Mr. Austin Hertslet, an official of the Lord Chamberlain’s Office, and a leading authority on Court dress, and author of a text book thereon, says that the Hon. Margaret Bondfield attending Court functions would wear woman’s usual Court dress, as there is no ruling regarding the unprecedented question of women Privy Councillors in uniform.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10921, 12 June 1929, Page 5
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