WONDER WARDROBES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19830, 22 December 1919, Page 6

WONDER WARDROBES.

SOME CHAMPION DRESSES

A lady film star has confessed to owning over 400 different costumes, many of winch she has worn only once. No lady of fashion would dream of possessing 100, let alone 400, dresses. She would not have time to wear half of them before the fashion had changed and they were out of date. The only rivals to the film lady in respect of giant wardrobes are, it must be confessed, men. The most wonderful dresses of recent years wore-the late Lord Anglesey and the Italian dramatist and flying man, Gabriele d’Armando.

Just before the war, d'Annunzio confessed to possessing seventy-two pairs of gloves, a hundred and fifty ties, forty-eight nightshirts and seventy-two day shirts, twenty dozen handkerchiefs, about forty pairs of shoes, and between sixty and seven tv suits of clothes. Big as tins list is, it is nothing compared to the wardrobe of Lord Anglesey,: whose clothes, after his death, wero r.uctionecd in 905 different lots. Among them were thirty bath gowns, and over forty dressing-gowns. There were a dozen smoking-suits, the jacket of one being made entirely of Persian! lamb. | The waistcoats wore numbered by thJ score, and were of silk, leather, wool! and costly furs. !

As for boots and shoos, they wore ini numerable, and ranged from snow and' Rivaling boots and patent leather jack boots down to shoes of white crocodile leather. Incidentally, there were 200 overcoats.

Bui even Lord Anglesey’s wardrobe failed in several respects to match that of tho late Baron de Renter. He left 100 dress suits and 150 pairs of spats. For sheer value the clothes of George IV. hold a record. They wore disposed of, after bis death, for £15,000. Among them were all the coats which he had purchased during a period of very nearly half a century.