+-------------------+------------+-----------+-----------+------------+ | | 4. | 5. | 7. | 6. | | +------------+-----------+-----------+------------+ | | £ _s._ _d._|£ _s._ _d._|£ _s._ _d._| £ _s._ _d._| |Dresses | 3 16 1 |16 10 0 |23 2 11 |19 1 9 | |Coats, cloaks, | | | | | | umbrellas, &c. | 2 7 11 | 8 10 0 | 2 16 0 | 2 4 0 | |Millinery | 1 11 1 | 4 10 0 | 5 5 9 | 3 11 7 | |Underclothing | | | | | | and handkerchiefs| 3 9 11 | 6 0 0 | 5 2 1 | 6 17 8 | |Boots and shoes | 2 15 11¹⁄₄| 3 0 0 | 3 4 2 | 6 5 8 | |Gloves | 0 15 8 | 1 15 0 | 1 13 6 | 2 0 0 | |Ties, collars, &c. | 0 15 11³⁄₄| 0 15 0 | 1 6 5 | 0 19 9 | |Miscellaneous | 0 8 11 | ----[10] | ----[11] | 1 0 11³⁄₄| | +------------+-----------+-----------+------------+ | Total |16 1 6 |41 0 0 |42 10 10 |42 1 4³⁄₄| +-------------------+------------+-----------+-----------+------------+ [10] Included in “petty cash” and not separable from other items. [11] Sponges, toilet soaps, brushes, &c., should have been included under this head. No. 5 (a clerk) adds the following note to her dress account:-- “To give a true impression I think detailed dress accounts should cover three years’ expenditure; things like, _e.g._, winter coats and best evening dresses cannot come out of the same year’s income on a £40 dress allowance. In considering the effect produced for the money, people should certainly state whether they are a ‘stock’ size. I can wear nothing ready made. People who can may reduce the cost of all their outer garments by about half.” No. 7 (a clerk), who is perhaps more representative of the middle class working women of the future than the others whose accounts are given here, inasmuch as she appears to regard bicycling, tennis, hockey, society, and pretty dresses as being as much the right of the girl wage-earner as of her stay-at-home cousins, has given me the list of additions to her wardrobe made by her family during the year, the items being: one pair of good evening slippers, one blouse, one dozen handkerchiefs, one lace collar, a total value of £2 4_s._; and sundry veils, ribbons, and belts, value not known. She writes:--