--Previous Message-- : : I recall a story of one bride removing her : earhangers (to use Bjarne’s term) because of : their weight, and hanging them on her : wineglass, to the amusement of the Tsar. :--Previous Message-- : The best description I recall was : "Magnificent, utterly magnificent, but : oh so horribly heavy and restricting; one : felt like one was enveloped and entrapped by : the very splendour of it all." : : I think it was a case of, to paraphrase : Elizabeth I, "more splendid to those : who see it than to them who wear it". :