BRIDE’S DREAM
£1,008,900 TROUSSEAU NOVEL DISPLAY. LONDON, October 14. A bride’s dream of a £1,000,000 trousseau was the central theme of a novel dress display at Grosvenor. House which was witnessed by 400 fashionable persons. The curtains were drawn back, and disclosed a sleeping bride in a black and white satin slumber suit. Subsequent scenes showed Parisian mannequins gorgeously gowned and bejewelled, while in .the gem scene a page came in carrying a tray which contained jewels reputedly worth £500,000, including an enormous emerald which belonged to a former King of Saxony. Another scene displayed bridegrooms’ gifts, including £50,000 diamond necklaces. Emeralds, rubies, sapphires,-dia-monds, and pearls accompanied many gowns, of which the most notable one for the evening was of gilded blue moire with a huge bustle bow. A white gown was composed entirely of long leaves edged with velvet.
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Evening Star, Issue 20318, 29 October 1929, Page 9
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140BRIDE’S DREAM Evening Star, Issue 20318, 29 October 1929, Page 9
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