A DRESS CRITICISED
LADY AWARDED DAMAGES. Br Telegraph—Press Association.—Copy rig In “Times” and Sydney "Sun" Services. LONDON, May 21. Miss Violet Scbmitz obtained a verdiet in the King’s Bench Division of the High Court of Justice for £SOO ogaiust the publishers of the journal “Modern Life” for an undefended libel referring to Miss Schmitz’s dress at the Dance Club at Brighton. The paper said chat the dress’s “absolute transparency left little to imagination; it was only a bit of a scream. The more modestly-minded guests held their breath.” .
Miss Schmitz gave evidence that the dress had been made by her usual dressmaker under her mother’s superintendence.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8740, 23 May 1914, Page 5
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106A DRESS CRITICISED New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8740, 23 May 1914, Page 5
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