Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1919 — Most Costly Gown. [ARTICLE]

Most Costly Gown.

What is the most valuable costume in the world? The New York Outlook asks, and says in answer: “An inventory of the dresses of queens, of the wives of the maharajahs of India, and of the princesses of fashion in every land would no doubt include costumes of fabulous value, but could any of them match two gowns mentioned in Theophile Gautier’s “Italy:” “The sacristy of the cathedral at Milan contains a treasure which ought not to surprise those who have seen the wardrobe of Notre Dame at Toledo, Spain, in which a'single robe covered with white and black pearls Is worth 7,000,000 francs, ($1,400,000), and yet that of Milan is fully as valuable.”