DON'T FOR THE DOWDY.
1 'Don't -wear I trodden. down; shoes.- ~ >, ; f.Don't dress in the height- of fashion Jry* unless -your husband is - a millionaire.' , :X£ft| : Carry rouge and powder with you | auways. These were some; of the 1 dress maxims tiered by Lady -Gordon, > one of | England's | leading dress experts, in a <~ : * speech at the Leeds 'Women's Luncheon Club. ; ; I i .:, She declared -that''-the r standard , of | • - 1 ,... women's smartness! depended on-' male ' jj| f environment."-,' An American • would not&&i&:. take ' a woman : out .unless she • was ' smart; - ; - A. \ Frenchman "thought his ,- wife was f. positively dowdy unless people turned to jook =at her in the streets; but: an Eng- ■, lislim3n hated' people to look . at his wife, .arid; would not allow her to be'too ftmart; - ••"■■ ... ====.=■. ,- \ ..
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18702, 7 May 1924, Page 14
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127DON'T FOR THE DOWDY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18702, 7 May 1924, Page 14
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