Dating of "chandelier earring"

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

There are four matches for "chandelier earrings" in the New Yorker in
1949 according to the OCR search in the online archive. The earliest
are in the December 3, issue. So the LIFE magazine instance in
November 14, 1949 still has precedence.

[ref] 1949 December 3, The New Yorker, On and Off the Avenue:
Christmas Day Is Drawing Nigh, Subsection: Grab Bag, Start Page 128,
Quote Page 156, Published weekly by the New Yorker Magazine, Inc. New
York. (Online New Yorker archive)[/ref]
[Begin excerpt]
Rhinestone chandelier earrings of tremendous size and glitter are $6 to $24; ...
[End excerpt]


[ref] 1949 December 10, The New Yorker, On and Off the Avenue: More
About Christmas, (Items at Altman store), Start Page 64, Quote Page
66, Published weekly by the New Yorker Magazine, Inc. New York.
(Online New Yorker archive)[/ref]
[Begin excerpt]
Rhinestone chandeliers for the ears, some of them three and a half
inches long and full of swing, are $16.20. Other chandelier earrings,
made of fake pearls and studded with rhinestones are $9.
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 4:55 AM, Hugo <hugovk at gmail.com> wrote:
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> "chandelier earring" (ODO undated)
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> Life magazine, 14 Nov 1949 - Page 135, the caption to a photo of a woman wearing them:
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> CHANDELIER earrings (Coro, (Marvella, $25) are new version of popular pendants.
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> http://books.google.com/books?id=90wEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA135&dq=%22chandelier+earrings%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=A78gUpyzE8SR4ATEgYH4Bg&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA
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> Also dated 1949 are Google Books snippets of The New Yorker (Volume 25 - Page 156) and Program (Cleveland Orchestra, Page 72) and Cue: The Weekly Magazine of New York Life, which may well antedate Life by a few weeks or months.
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> Hugo
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