BUTTERFLY VOGUE
A NEW IDEA IN DECORATION. Real butterflies, some of them comparatively rare, appeared to have alighted on the flowers in the centre of the table at a dinner party given by a London hostess.
They are a new idea in decoration, and beautiful blue and spooted butterflies are among those being taken out of the collector’s box for this purpose (says a London writer). The butterflies are each fitted on a miniature cork, to which a wire is attached, if they are intended to hover over but not alight on the flowers. If they are meant to look as though settling a very small piece of plasticene is used to attach them to the flower. Members of the Royal Family are among those who have had the butterfly decorations. For the tea table at a child’s birthday party recently a very charming idea was carried out. The centre-piece consisted of a cqprttry gate, with a grass path leading to a miniature pond, bordered by real primroses and violets. On a grape hyacinth swung one of these butterflies.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18599, 21 June 1930, Page 10 (Supplement)
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179BUTTERFLY VOGUE Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18599, 21 June 1930, Page 10 (Supplement)
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