DIAMOND EYES IN FOX FURS
LATEST PAEIS FASHION IN GEMS PARIS, Oct. 2. The discovery has just been made that the fortunate possessors of many gems have not had sufficient apace as yet upon which to display them. Bracelets, brooches, rings, and necklaceg have not sufficed. A new fashion has therefore been evolved. Necklets of sable and of silver fox, in which the heads of animals were formerly adorned simply with more o* less natural-looking glass eyes, are being remodelled, and in many cases diamonds, rubies, or emeralds have been carefully set in place of artificial eyes. On one priceless necklet composed of two fine sable skins each animal has its neck adorned with a “collar” of real jewels. I was informed to-day by an authority on the subject that some women, blessed wth a superfluity of brooches or rings, an? having the stones removed from their metal settings and ; transferred to their furs.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 291, 7 December 1929, Page 20 (Supplement)
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154DIAMOND EYES IN FOX FURS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 291, 7 December 1929, Page 20 (Supplement)
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