OLD LACE AND NECKLETS.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17994, 12 April 1930, Page 15 (Supplement)

OLD LACE AND NECKLETS.

Every woman in London who wants to be “in the swim” this season is searching diligently through her treasure chest for relics of her grandmother’s days. The older and more fragile the scraps of lace she finds the better will they serve their present purpose, which is not so much decorative as sentimental. To wear something “belonging to grandmother” is to be socially correct just now, and there is a certain friendly competition to see who can produce the most interesting specimens of Early Victorian fal-lals. Old-fashioned bracelets, quaint necklets, coy fans, and even silver surrounds of Victorian posies are being eagerly brought out to enhance the charms of ultra-modern dresses. Specially lovely are the delicate old lace bcrlhas which are now used on the drooping-over-the-shoulders decolletages of the 1920 debutantes. They need no alteration, for the modern girl’s evening frock is very much like the one her mother’s grandmother wore.