WOMAN’S EXTRAVAGANCE IN THE PAST
Sarah Bernhardt took with her on her visit to tlie United States 45 trunks containing no fewer than 100 gowns. That seems a wardrobe of extraordinary wastefulness and luxury. Yet it would have seemed only ;i meagre and shabby outfit to the great Homan ladies of the first century of our era. We are told, on trustworthy authority that the dresses alone of Lollia Paulina the rival of Agrippina, were valued at £333,000. Plinv relates that he saw her at a plain citizen s bridal supper literally covered by pearls and emeralds, worth, in our money £320,000. Another lavish beauty of nearly the same epoch. Lollia Sabina, never travelled without a train of 500 she-asses, so that she might not miss her morning s bath of asses’ milk ! By the side oi their Roman prototypes the'most extravagant women of our own day seem thrifty.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 30 November 1933, Page 2
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