Pearls and Blue Hair.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)

Pearls and Blue Hair.

Pearls liave been going back at Deauville to the sea whence they came —but around the neck -of their owner, who takes the risk of retaining her gems in order to add beauty to her bathe, writes a correspondent. - “Sea water docs not affect pearls, n’est-ce-pas?” she remarked. "They are born there, and it gives them even more brilliancy.” Another bather wore all her diamond bracelets on one arm up to the elbow. In the evening, in the baccarat rooms, an elderly lady wore her hair —normally white—dyed in light sapphire blue. The hair was short and softly waved towards the back, leaving the ears ffialf uncovered. Completing the effect were two big lapis-lazuli stones used as earrings, ana a short coat of dark sapphire blue velvet, worn over a black lace dress.

Lacquered Hats. There are not many new straws, but ■ the old straws are having a new treatment. They arc being .lacquered, flays the Adelaide Leader. All the very smartest of the new hate have this shiny lacquer finish; fine panamafl, when lacquered, are given a special name; the straw is called Panamalac. In a fine straw the lacquering is very attractive. These lacquered straws, .some rather coarsely woven eoft straws, in a dull finish, and some bakus will be practically the only straws worn in the summer. There are some exquisitely eoft pedal and Milan straws, but these are too expensive to be worn by many. Bangkok and celophane, fashionable kist" = year, have vanished; baku, a; fine straw imported from the Eastern Pacific Islands, is the only flurwu«.