NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19624, 30 October 1925, Page 15

NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Bx Phillida. (Continued from page 14.) MILADY’S BILL DAY AT THE RACES. OUTLAY ON FROCKS. (Fkom Ode Own Coeeespondent.l SYDNEY, October 15. It is estimated that Ladies’ Day at Randwick—one of the features of the spring racing carnival —attracted no fewer than 20,000 of the feminine element. It is estimated that, for the display by these women of the very latest spring fashions, the outlay on frocks, hats, shoes, and stockings) bags, gloves, and lingerie ran into the tidy little sum of £220,000. This is apart from etcotras such as shingles, shampoos, marcel waves, manicures, face massages, and motor car hire. It is safe to say, according to a woman writer who has delved into the question in detail, and in a column article in one of the afternoon papers, that the cost' incurred by _ these 20.000 women for the visit to Randwick on Ladies’ Day ran into the neighbourhood of a quarter of a million sterling. The spring gowns are put down at the very low average of five guineas apiece, which makes a total of 100,000 guineas._ So much for the frocks. Then there is the little matter of hats. The majority of the newest and smartest hats worn were Bangkok in all colours. Real Bangkoks are not to be had under three or four guineas, so it is said, but the writer, to be on the conservative side, has put the hats worn for the occasion at an average of a guinea and a-half each, which accounts for another 30.000 guineas. Then there were shoes and stockings. Here, again, the writer does not make an extravagant estimate) for she takes into consideration thoso_ who had to compromise with cheap artificial silk stocicings. Under those heads, shoes and stodcings, 40,000 guineas are accounted for. The gloves worn for the occasion, calculating again on the conservative_ side, are put down at half a guinea a pair. Bang goes another 10,000 guineas. Then there are handbags, which even at a miinca each, account for another 20,000 guineas. But this is all top-dressing. It does not account for such things as jewellery and sunshades, or for silken lingerie, which, it is reckoned, accounted for another 20,000 guineas. This, of course, is apart from all the money that went into the totalisator and the bookmakers’ hags. “Many a piece of black moire (whatever that is) cuddled under the arm.” the writer adds, “cost more than hundreds of women ’ spend on all their clothes in a month.”