BEST-DRESSED WOMAN.

Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20426, 30 September 1938, Page 8

BEST-DRESSED WOMAN.

£IOOO PER SEASON. ALLOTTED FOE CLOTHES. AN ESSENTIAL COLOUIt. Mr. Norman Hartnell, foremost among British dress designers, regards a black town suit as the most essential item in any woman’s wardrobe, provided, one supposes, that the woman in question spends most of her life in a town. Long ago Paris decided that black for afternoon wear was the last word in chic, but it has taken London many years to come to the same way of thinking. The designer was discussing the wardrobe of Britain’s best-dressed woman of 1938, and though he would not disclose her name he did give an idea of how she spends some of the £IOOO a season allotted to her clothes. The ali important black town suit accounts for a mere 18 guineas; her day ensembles, fur-trinuned this winter, add another £45, and her hats—two for every outfit —bags* and shoes, represent an average of £3/3/- each.

Four evening dresses for the opera will cost round about £l2O and one velvet evening cloak, a silver or bloe fox cape and a long ermine coat will account for another £3OO. Altogether it costs the lady £4OOO a year to keep her title.