Gloves or Bracelets

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 120, 23 May 1931, Page 9

Gloves or Bracelets

I There is much to be said for the revived fashion of wearing long gloves in tho evening, writes a Londoner. It is graceful, and adds the final decorativo touch to a formal gown. But in one respect it is inconvenient. It conflicts with tho even more popular fashion of wearing a number of magnificent bracelets. Lady Bessborough found herself in this quandary at the Canada Houso reception in her husband's honour. Her wrists were resplendent with diamonds and emeralds; but —faced with the ordeal of shaking hands with several hundred people—she began to draw on her gloves. And the process was so arduous and so lengthy that many a man, looking on, must havo felt himself avenged for hours wasted in wrestling with veealci-1 trant studs and links. There were, as a matter of fact, few indications that this was an official reception. It was pleasantly informal in character, and ended, as these functions now so often do, in a dance. • And only three women were noticed wearing any kind of head-dress. Tho Duchess of Norfolk woro a diamond bandeau, the Dowager Lady Lansdowne a tiara, and Mrs. Commissioner Lamb the quaint coal-scuttle bonnet of the Salvation Army.