A DELICATE QUESTION.
"Women are, says the Melbourne Argus, getting on. They have so far invaded the domain of man, that, at this, the end of the Nineteenth Century, the stuff for their dreßses is so similar to that used for men's trouserings that Customs office experts and importers quarrel about the drawing of the line between the two. Formerly -women's dress-piece goods and men's clothing were manufactured in different widths, and the Customs officers were thus given a rough but effective means of distinguishing between them. For some reason or other the stuffs are now manufactured in the same widths, and apparently no ono can tell the difference, since the same cloth -which serves a woman for a dress may take a man's fancy for a pair of trousers, or even a coat. To the ordinary mind.it matters , little, but to the Customs officer or to the importer it is of consequence, inasmuch ias while women's dress goods are admitted free, men's goods are subject to a duty of 25 per cent. Importers in the city .allege, indeed, that the Customs officers have been so hopelessly mixed in the matter that they have for exactly the same cloth charged two or three varying rates of duty.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6138, 26 March 1898, Page 8
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207A DELICATE QUESTION. Star (Christchurch), Issue 6138, 26 March 1898, Page 8
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