MEN AND THEIR 1 CLOTHES
At no time in tbo last few hundred years have men spent les3 on clothes. British statisticians disregard these trifles, but the United States Department of Labour estimates that the American man sponds on an average just under £ls a year on dress and the American woman about a pound less. The English business man of to-day spends as much annually on his wardrobe as his Elizabethan ancestors Mid on a' single doublet and hose. 'Thatwas the tailor’s golden age. when expensive dressing was carried to such excess that laws were made to curb it. .
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12315, 9 December 1925, Page 4
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100MEN AND THEIR1 CLOTHES New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12315, 9 December 1925, Page 4
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