SOME EXPENSIVE LACE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 16 June 1900, Page 1131

SOME EXPENSIVE LACE.

The late Mrs John Jacob Astor purchased a lace robe in Paris for £351)0, and a dress of the same material was a short time afterwards sold in that city for £5OOO. Several of the millionaire families in the United States possess fortunes in laces. Those belonging to the Van-

derbilts are said to be worth £ 100,000. The Astor family has rich lace treasures valued at £60,000. Mrs A. T. Stewart paid £lOO per pair for laee curtains, while those in the mansion of Robert Garrett, at Baltimore, cost £4O a. yard. New York buys more laces

than any other city in the world. It has at least a score of wea'ithy women whose laces exceed £ 10.000 in value, and a hundred whose collections would each sell for £4OOO. A dressmaker stated that she had seen two lace shawls in that citv worth about £6OO each.

Iler Majesty's wedding dress was decorated with a piece of lloniton lace for which £ 1000 was paid. The Pope has a collection of lace at the Vatican worth £175,000, tin* Queen's collection is worth £75,000, and tin* Princess of Wales's £ 50,000.