ANTI-LUXURY PLEDGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16050, 16 October 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

ANTI-LUXURY PLEDGE.

PATRIOTIC SOCIETY LADIES. The ladies who are engineering the antiluxury pledge axe very influential, and this influence is securing a fair number of adherents to the cult of economy. They are, however, realising already that the'r success at best will only be partial, and that the task before them is the reverse of an easy one. "While a fair proportion of England's society ladies are sufficiently patriotic to pledge themselves— to stand by their pledgeto limit their expense on dress, give up entertaining, abandon all formal and purely social entertaining, and eschew everything that may be regarded as luxuries, there is a »very largo number who are averse to the practice of any such self-denial. To appear shabby and dowdy is to them unthinkable, and to forgo expensive luncheons'and dinners at the West End hotels and restaurants is equally impossible in the view of such people. They are numerous and influential enough to largely nullify'the endeavours of the anti-luxury organisation, and until shabbiness can be made fashionable by some means they are not likely to be influenced by the economy campaign. Such would as soon be out of the world as out of fashion, and it is With these the AntiLuxury League will find their most resolute opponents to the pledge against extravagance.