Magnificent Jewels

Southland Times, Issue 25309, 12 June 1935, Page 5

Magnificent Jewels

BEDECKED MANNEQUINS.

There was a time when “Brummagem” connoted shoddy manufacture, particularly of jewellery, states the Sunday Times. Though this term ot opprobrium still lingers among outsiders, it has no application to-day. Proof of the fact, if it were needed, was forthcoming at the annual ball promoted by the L Birmingham Jewellers’ Association, held in the Grand Hotel on November 12. A dazzling display of precious stones, estimated to be worth £lOO,OOO, adorned a number of specially selected mannequins. The jewellery—diamonds, rubies.’ emeralds and so on—-v/as brought to the hotel, and arranged in suites, from which was chosen, for the mannequins to wear, just the particular articles that go best with their dresses Individually they carried round their necks, on their corsage, or their arms, jewellery worth a small fortune; collectively they made a coruscating assembly. In every case harmony of effect not ostentatious display, was aimed at. Naturally the bringing together of so many precious articles of female adornment involved risks to be countered by every vigilance and care. For the police as well as employers, it was a somewhat anxious time until this mass of jewellery was safely back in the safes whence it came.