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REG JACKSON, of Deal, temporarily joine the peerage while. he acts as a model for Miss Mary McGettigan, who is renovating ermine Jast worn in 1937 at King George VI's coconia- tion.

MRS O. BROOKMAN, whose

home is at Blackheath, brushes

Just off A robe which has been in store,

WHAT THE WELL-DRESSED PEER WILL WEAR

His coronation robes may cest him £400-though he could hire them for 25 guincts. And his wife's ermine?

Well, there's always rabbit

T

By VIVIEN BATCHELOR-

HE expense of the coronation is already looming darkly in the budgets of more than one noble- man tugging hard at the ends which steadfastly refuse to meet.

For frcording to tradition the peers and pecresses will supply much of the colour and splendour. in Westminster Abbey with their ceremonial robes and coronets,

A peer who wishes to take his place in pre-war style-silk velvet robe trimmed with crmine over full court dress or cere- monial regimental uniform-must today be prepared to pay $400 for his outfit. But one firm in Chancery Lane hope to make a cheaper version of corona- tion robea-with velvet and "mock ermine" for 150 guinens.

MR HARRY GOODMAN Borts out the swords which to with uniforms to be hired,

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Many peers who have in herited old tities own coronation res which have been pre- served in the family for genera- tions, and which, smelling only slightly of moth balls, will do duy ngain.

Others will hire their robes for 25 guineas,

them for one

Robes must be made of crim- on velvet Lned with white slik miniver. Over the shoulders is

edged

or taffeta and

with

a cape "furred with miniver pure and powdered with rows and bars of ermine.”

on the ermine is determined by The number of rows of dots rank, A baron has two rows, 4 viscount two and a hall, an eart three, #marquess thrce and a hall, a duke four.

Peeresses are allowed trains, the length varying with, rank. A baroness is allowed a trein one yard long, a viscountess is allowed a

a yard and a

quarter. A pecress's robe is made up of kirtle, train and mantic,

The kirtle is of crimson velvet

round with hercered sit edging of miniver. It may open back or front, but must open from the waist and widen to the ground. The sleeves of the kirtle must not be more than Bin, tong. From them fall five leppets of varying lengths and edged with miniver and white lace,

The mantle is the dress worn under thes kirlle and must be от cream, or silver while brocade.

corenel The peer's កងរ strictly uccording to tradition and rank.

In a workreom high above the frult barrows of Covent Garden

In the workroom above "The women are wer

working on the Garden" I found Mrs I. Alobal- borrowed plumes.

ter, of Barking, and Mrs Grace The robes

have been acquired Lonnen, of Clapham, deciding by the firm from familles who how to refurbish some coronets have disposed

which were showing signs of reason or another.

being in store. Some

required new ermine, others new tassels, A coronet must be made glit and silver glit. It must be edged with ermine and the cap must be of crimson velvet with a gold tassel. Before the war coronet cost about £18;

I watched them at work on rubes which once belonged to a famous carl and to a viscount,

Tradition on style is rigid.

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the American

is examinius

one oye cast

U.S.

Into

can Industry, is far from being

of

A duke has his cororic! in the design of eight glit strawberry Icaves. An earl (according to the

words

lald down

from ancient custom) must wear a

coronet with

th "eight silver balis

on points with gold strawberry leaves between." A baron must wear j'a plain silver circlet with six silver balls."

Pecresses

their husbands"

wear replicas ef coronets ira threatened. Americans have miniature. A peeress's coronet far hardly started to build up

But, one way or the

designed to fit on her head

to

arc

HIGH above the fruit barrows of Covent Garden women. are already working on coronation robes which will be hired by peers who do not wish to go to the expense of buying new anes. From now until the coronation many robes will be spread out in warm, dry moms so that the folds and oreanes gradually. fall out. Tradition on style is rigid. The number of rows of dols on the mine is determined by rank. Bola. 'the longth of a peeress's train.

ROBES and uniforms are kept in walerproof, mothproof boxes": In strong rooms.under the streets.of. Covent Garden. “Each box bears a label staiing what is inside.

n civil jet production line. Pro- gress, hindered by the industry's inside the tiara she wears at a financial and rearmament wor-ebranation. Modern hair styles

make this difficult. rics, has barely got post-the The coronets and tiaras bave artist's impression stage.

ta be, balanced carefully on other, sleek short hair, and for the coronation many pceresses are RITAIN'S Comet jet standards, and the Unlied States

Civil Aeronautics Administra- the United States will assuredly Likely to grow telt hair airliner has slipped tion might not issue the neces- get off the mark soon.

And make

the balance of their smoothly into service sary certificates to o foreign- Americans feel that once their coronet less precarious,

the time aircraft factories have been No jewels are allowed on a between London and South Suilt airliner when

But, under pressure, it geared up for commercial jets, coronet, though peeresses Africa. In just a month, it comes.

Administration

accklaces it will be only a matter of me cocouraged to wear

of pearls and diamonds. has come to be accepted by is likely tho

before they have jetliners galore. At the last coronation many

Many swords already made word for an officer in the Life Britons as though it had would yield.

Meanwhile,

These aro peeresses made do with vel will have to be altered before Guards cosis £25, been zipping away down 'to

veteen for their kirtles. Others, they are supplied to men receive the longest swords, with blades Johannesburg for years, aviation industry

unable to afford ermine, used ing their commissions from the with the more usual. 93 inches,

37.6 inches long, compared The excitement of the first its future, with

Queen. For a sword bears the few flights has gone. Pride cavelly on the Comet's perfec-

own coronation cipher of the Sovereign who At the present rate, however,

The Queen's robes are likely to be

Another job for this arm of remains. And determination tion. There is a move to begi

be expected broidered chiefly by members of commissions the officer and the swordmakers before the Corona- to have British Comets all-out development of jets for nothing much can

commercial use. And there is from America before 1855. By the Royal School of Needle now Queen's elpher has not yet fion will be the alteration of circling the world.

thepartisans - belonging to “tho even talk of a Government sub- then, well over 100 of Britain's work, who were responsible for been received by the firm.

Yeomen of the Guard Tha will be the robes wom by her father help the industry's jets and turbo-props sidy to

The cipher in service with various world and mother at their coronation

le engraved op the partisans all bear the Rayal jin 1937.

sword blade, and in the case of cipher of the reigning monarch, efforts to overhaul Britain.

airlines. Production capacity is

Infantry regiments is also · In- expanded being

month by

corporated on the guard of the The gold embroidery of the hilt.

cipher on the tabards of the [TUE · change of ruler has

Yeomen will also have to be brought business to tho Before the war: (hè' nverngo, altered. It is work done by sword-makers. An Acton firm cost of a sword was 6 guincos, experts who have handed down

Today it is: 11-guineas. A their craft. for. generations,

brightest

uchleve

Before they turn their great resources to civil jet produc-

on, the industry's experts must month. irst decide what type of jet- liner is going to serve American

That is Britain's reaction to the triumph of the Comet ven- ture. In five years, a blueprint has developed into one of tho country's menty.

Across the Atlantic, there is needs best. also reactions mixture of admiration for 'Britain and dis tres at American laggardjiness, Loynten Americans are trying to United figure out why the

tion.

n

There Is the Comet, is busy.

one

Three different types are in- volved.

verslona. two

with Ghost englaes, the other with And in more-powerful Aven. the turbo-propa field, there are the Vickers Viscounts and The majority of United States the Bristol Brittanias. airlines operato almost entirely

.:

et the rate of one

States, with its great Inventive within the nation, along high- The Comet is currently being copacity and Industrial dvasily and usually, short-haul produced and this is being resources; thould be trailing frame routes. A straight 1st, a month.

Outpui behind Britain in civil avia. Uke the Comet, is an economie steadily increased.

proposition only over long dis will be doubled when a second. fances American experts are production Eve opens in 1954 puzzled even on this point. They at the Shert Brothers cannot visualise the profitable, in Northern Ireland. Fifty-all operation of d plane which Comets, all to be delivered by corries 6,000 gallons of fuel and 1055, are at present on order, burns, it at 950 gallons to the. hour,

works

Current Viscount production

je als about one a month but

Tnaide the industry itself, the experts are thinking again about commercial fets. There is self-

It is unlikely America's ini Vickers Armstrong have plans questioning.

While the Comet termal airlines will plump at for stepping it up to six. They war still in its experimental this stage for a straight jet airs have contracted to deliver 54 The threat to American mor. But its international air- Viscounts to four ifferent stages aviation prestige did not appear line companies, notably Pan airlines by 1955,

But the actual American Airways, must 20. great, appearance of the jet on a world tainly introduco a plane airline

at all.

cor.

The: Bristol Aeroplano Com-

:

route has given an Comot capabilities if they are to pany, which has an order fr;ni entirely new emphasis to Amerl. make any change-over to jeis Billith Overseas Airways Cor

poralien for 25 of its Brittanles, na's position,

Ja well ahead with, tooling up Britain has struck a neat for maximum production Plans And the airline bosses are not

Ils production of arc alro being mode for likely to take it lying down, medium in

production else- Already, one U.S. airline is clul Jele And it seems the duplicating reported to bo negotiating to United States will have to fol- where. low much the same polley,AN buy Comets from Britain,

with this record of developing turbo-prop airliners Faced

-high progress, it is not surprising that There is one mag to Ameri. for their short-haul,

density routes and straight jets American aviation men can buying of British aircraft, for the long oversens hauls, these days finding little consoli There is no international agree.

on in Winir hordes of pistan-, .Britain. ment between

and Bellain's lead, considering the engined airliners. The next America on common safety proscht position of tho Ameri- move to theiry

ara

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MES F. G. CROS6, Mrs F. Lambert and Mrs L 'Alabaster working on coronets, which must cons

· Korm to a rigid malisen., DA MA Ment Gracy Mormon li sewing a new tamuel on to api part's corenet,