"The normal average amount of clothing required in a temperate climate such as ours is: One pound weight of clothing to every one stone weight of the body.... Thus the clothes of a child weighing 3 stones should be 3lb., and for a man or woman weighing 10 stones the clothes should weigh 10lb. This is a definite statement; at any rate, disprove it who can."—Sir James Cantlie in "The Daily Mail."
We gave instructions to our Mathematical specialist to work out the figures, and his report is that he finds them substantially correct.