DECORATED GLOVES
Wo are told Jhat decorated gloves are to be one of the extravagances of the coming season, and that turns the thoughts very far back to when gloves wore a most elaborate and important part of a costume. Queen Elizabeth, that lovor of fine raiment, had several wonderful pairs embroidered in gold and even precious stones, while hawking gloves were miniature works of art. The sterner times of <2romwell banished such frivolities, but introduced the leather fringed gaunthjt, which had a revival last winer. The dainty dames of the Georgian period had embrdidery on their gloves, and, carrying the idea still further, had those coquettish jaco- mittens which, lasted well into Victorian times. '
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Wairarapa Age, 25 March 1920, Page 2
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115DECORATED GLOVES Wairarapa Age, 25 March 1920, Page 2
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