Paris Gives the OK[?]
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to South Seas MOF[?]
A little assistance to th& struggling Pacific pearl-shell in dustry came recently from the> least likely quarter—one of the* Spring “Collections” in Paris.z And ice understand this is onlyi' the beginning. M. Pierre Balmaim was the man repsonsible here;* and, according to the fashiom < writers, “the colours, line, fabrics.*: and accessories of all his clothes. were inspired by the ‘perla\ oceane’” — that’s mother-of-' pearl to you.
One of Balmain’s suits wa&i reported to have been decorated by the most “precious button zms the world” —it was of shell, set with Australia’s firstz cultured pearl from Broome.