"Dear Miss Manners:
When did it become against the "law" to wear pearls in the daytime? Is it okay to wear pearls to a big fancy luncheon?
Gentle Reader:
Wearing pearls day or night was illegal under periodic sumptuary laws in Venice and Florence between the 16th and 18th centuries, but Miss Manners understands that they have since been repealed. Pearls are now properly worn at any hour. Just don't let her catch you running around decked in diamonds before dusk. "
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2003Aug23.html
BR(bowing left, bowing right)C
