ARTISTIC CHOCOLATE BOXES
Great pains are taken nowadays to provide women with that great source of pleasure, variety (says the "Daily Telegraph"). A small but flourishing trade now exists in handsome chocolate boxes which can be used after the contents are eaten, to ornament a lady's dressing table. Tho centre of this industry is in Paris, and the beautiful tinted silks employed are embroidered by skilled needlewomen or are handpainted and signed by artists. Even an artist whose work has been hung in the Louvre has been known to decorate boxes for favoured clients, who will pay eight guineas or more for the privilege. An average price for a 51b handpainted box is, however, four guineas. Since the war fewer people are prepared to pay double or treble the price of the chocolates for tho sake of the box, and a fashion has consequently been created for charming boxes covered with fancy paper and decorated with large bows of ribbon. Each season has its fancies in this as ill other trades, and last year there was quite a run on a prettily woven basket of chocolates which could afterwards be used for needlework.
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Evening Post, Volume 137, Issue CXI, 10 June 1926, Page 12
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