TELLING WOMEN'S AGES
COLOUR OF CLOTHES A poiiceinan explained recently in ilie Birmingham Police Court how he estimated a woman's age. He had judged the age of a woman in a brown coat as " about 30," and Lord Ilkeston, the magistrate, asked: "How could you tell when her back was turned to you?" The Officer: 1 could see her figure. Later the same officer said of another woman, " She was fairly stout." Counsel: Did you notice how old she would be? —Round about 40. I suppose you estimated that by her figure—And the colour of her coat, sir, which was blue. Young women do not wear certain colours. So if you seo a stoui - . woman in a la,lie coat she is 40, and a thin woman in a brown coat is 35? —Yes. Commenting on the appearance of a third woman, the officer said that she would be over 50. Counsel: What did you notice about her dress, —She was dressed in black. That is the 50 sign, I suppose?— Yes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21716, 3 February 1934, Page 2 (Supplement)
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