SKIRT WAS TOO SHORT

Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1929, Page 14

SKIRT WAS TOO SHORT

JUDGE MAKES DECISION. Judge Moore had to decide the proper length of a skirt at Greenwich CountyCourt recently, when Mrs., Ethel Elizabeth Carpenter, Arran Road, Catford, sued W. Rees, a tailor, Rushey Green, Catford, for £5 10s, the price of a costume. Mrs. Carpenter said that she complained about the skirt and Rees made a new one, which was “utterly indecent and impossible to wear.” When she sat down it was two and a-half inches above her knees. Her husband, who was outside the house when she returned with it on, called out, “Come inside at once.” She went to counsel’s robing room on the Judge’s directions and put on the skirt. When she returned Judge Moore said:' “I agree that the skirt is very short, but some people like them short.” Mrs. Carpenter: I do. but not like that. I have a child of 14.

Judge Moore said that he would give the tailor an opportunity of altering it, and if the alterations were not satisfactory he would make an order for the return of the money. He would view the costume again in his private room and decide whether the alterations were satisfactory.