A GLASS DRESS.
GIRL'S ACHIEVEMENT. Miss Mae Kingsley, the Australian girl glass-blower, has mads a lady's evening frock in glass. This unique achievement took eleven weeks to make, and though it is all glass it is quite flexible, and can be handled and worn the same as ordinary material. It is s real dress, and lias been worn by its maker many times; it is a beautiful gold and blue creation, which looks like silk but weighs about 121b. Miss Kingsley has also made a large working model o£ a steam-en-gine, with all parts made entirely of glass, and operates under its own steam power. These two astounding achievements are on exhibition at the Christchurch Royal Show in conjunction with the demonstration of spinning, weaving, knitting, and blowing glassware novelties, such as kangaroos, glass hair, kiwis, steamships, glass that floats in the air like feathery crystals, ornamental vases, etc., from the raw material to the finished article without the aid of moulds of any kind. The demonstration will be at the Show Ground.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19153, 9 November 1927, Page 12
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173A GLASS DRESS. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19153, 9 November 1927, Page 12
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