NEWLY-RICH IN LONDON.

Mataura Ensign, 12 January 1920, Page 5

NEWLY-RICH IN LONDON.

LN REN SI VE < LOTTIES WOB N • Rkuhl Stioet, afternoon (irw parade, if it i, not entirely a display of la tost fadiions, L. at aov rate. ;t competition between women to show off the mod expensive raiment, writes a. London correspondent. . ... . . n " ‘Thousand (■umea Women J call thorn.*' remarked an expert in women's altirc in one oj the csta.blisbment.s for clothes and garments do luxe. “I have had some experience of the jibaos of West End women’s clothing 'luring the fast twenty years, and to-day (hi re, are more women walking round the shops whose complete fittings and makeup approximate to a thousand gnilteas than I have ever remarked before.“ Asked how. he made up Ihe details' of so* largo a sum, llio man in the. trade gave the following suinmaiy of costs:— Guineas. Fur coal' 400 Hat, with jewelled osprey ... 50 Costume ....... dh Shoes, with hnekles 20 Silken stockings U) Watches and jewellery, including heads 209 1 Underclothing 70 T\'anieure 19 (’oil'inm 19 Dental additions 50 Racial toilette 59 luisetiere ■■■ i, 9 Perfumes. including phial ... L> Handbag 45 Small dog 49 Total : 1.040 "Tfic.it wealthy additions to the Bond Street 'parade are ehietlv the war par* v, nne, and I should add that the Cornpleat Madame War Profiteer invariably idines to the shopping centre in a thousand guinea- automobile, so yon see she is in reality a ‘Two Thousand Guinea Woman.’ ”