LORGNETTE REVIVAL?
Perhaps the first fashion likely to be set by Lady Newall in New Zealand may be a revival of the use of lorgnette spectacles among Wellington's dowagers. At the scout and guide memorial service to the late Lord Baden-Powell on i Sunday, Lady Newall followed the service through a pair of silver-mounted lorgnettes. Glasses of this type, the skilful manipulation of which considerably enhances the user's dignity of deportment, were used before the modern custom of hooking glasses to one's nose and can became general, and they are stfll nsod bj many society folk in England %ad America, thought at present In tl»*Domlnion.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 48, 26 February 1941, Page 10
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