Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1913 — QUEEN FOR DRESS ECONOMY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

QUEEN FOR DRESS ECONOMY

Mary Frowns Upon Costume Balls and Says Women Should Keep Wtthin Bank Roll.* t London.—To the relief of those whose pocket-books are not so large as their ambitions, the word has gone around In the select circle of society which regulates such functions that this season’s balk are to be of a simple character and without the slightest suggestion of "freakiness.” The reason is that no hostess who encourages anything "daring" in the way of costumes is likely to receive Queen Mary’s patronage. The, queen has not issued any official instructions, but her comments

on several recent extravagant costume balls and other functions of an unusiial character have been duly passed on by the royal ladles in waiting. Merself a simple dresser. Queen Mary has the strongest possible objection to extravagance and extreme fashions. For this reason the hobble, dlrectolre and panler skirts are never seen in her entourage. She has no real objection to fancy dress balls, but the queen’s caustic comments on what she termed the immodesty of the costumes worn by dancers at the recent Arabian Nights, Post-Impressionist and. Four Arts balls gave little pleasure to the culprits, but great joy to the retailers of court ■lp“No woman should dress beyond the limits of her bank role," is Queen

Mary’s motto and, although the dressmakers are by no means pleased, there has been a distinct slump in costly entertainments lately.

Queen Mary of England.