JEWELS ON HIRE.
NEW POOR OF ENGLAND. London, June 15. Women of ancient lineage went to the Court last week wearing borrowed jewels. Many £lOOO necklaces which adorned fair wearers returned to their nooks in the jewellers’ shops next day, the cost of hire and insurance for the evening being about £6. “W'e do not make a practice of lending jewellery,” said a well-known member of the trade, “but we oblige our customers when we know that they have to get rid of their own jewels. We only do it for customers whom we have done business with for years.” A great deal of buying and selling of jewellery has taken place between the “new” and the “old” rich. Often the transaction is done through friends, for people do not want their jewellers to know that they are obliged to sell their jewellery. Women also are lending to each other, and even hiring jewellery from one another for occasions. Sometimes a loan of jewellery is made by a wealthy woman to an impoverished woman, who lends her old lace in exchange. Fortunately for the woman whose jewel cases are empty, tiaras are now rarely worn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1922, Page 8
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195JEWELS ON HIRE. Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1922, Page 8
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