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Observer, Volume XXXVII, Issue 25, 24 February 1917, Page 22

One of the most disquieting home symptoms of the present hour is the extravagance of a class of women that has been enriched by war (writes the Countess of Warwick in the "Daily Chronicle"). Ido not, of course, refer to women of the working classes; their transgreesions in this direction are venial. Nor to the. women of the upper classes—l hate these adjectives, but know of nothing that will take their place— who have seriously reduced their normal expenditure. What I protest against is the fashion in which so many of the wives and daughters of the. profit makers 1 are spending the money. I paid a rare and very necessary visit to my dressmaker the other day, and the slightness oi my needs made me almost apologetic. Madame reassured me. She was so busy with big order® for extravagant gowns that she hardly knew how to execute them; all the orders she told l me, came from clients unknown to her before the war.