ENGAGEMENT RINGS
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Newly-engaged girls in England are letting sentiment—plus Parliamentary appeal foi' economy—steer them away from square-cut diamonds.
The latest idea is to have an engagement ring made from a brass button, cut from your young man's tunic. It started with a ring which Kayden Brett, of Soho, made from an R.A.F. officer's tunic button. Now dozens of girls are wearing them. Rings made from beaten silver and copper, which do for both engagement and wedding rings, are another idea of hers. This attractive girl started her career by illustrating fashion catalogues. Her willowy mannequins always wore such attractive jewellery that she soon found women were writing to know where they could get duplicates. They couldn't. Kayden Brett had to confess that it did not exist —that she made it up as she went along—but she soon decided she would make the most of the market which her imaginary jewellery had created.
Her finger-tip rings, which look like Chinese fingernails, have had an enormous success. Now she is working on rings made from a transparent, colourless plastic which is used mostly for making aeroplane windscreens.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 August 1940, Page 10
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