In the house, operagoers lined the stairways to people-watch as the swirl of gowns and glittering jewelry poured in.

BEAUTIFUL women wearing caftans, saris and glittering jewelry; exotic-looking men sprawled on scatter cushions or low divans; gauze and silks and a hundred or so brightly colored parasols fringed with mirrored disks, fluttering in the breeze as the sky turned pink and the sun set over an elegant pavilion.

Sarein's garments were an unusual mixture of home-dyed cocoon-fiber fabrics, natural products from Theroc, highlighted with processed polymers and glittering jewelry from Earth.

Style and Stamina Mr. King modeled his dress on Ellington's and Cole's: wide-lapel suits, silk ties and glittering jewelry.

Bombay is a megalopolis of 12.5 million people with luxury high-rise buildings, great swathes of shantytowns, avenues of glittering jewelry and fashion shops and pavements carpeted by street dwellers.

Sofia Vergara was wearing an estimated $5 million-worth of glittering jewelry from Harry Winston and confided in a friend that the responsibility of taking care of the extraordinary ensemble left her feeling like she was "going to have a heart attack."

The city's skyline resembles downtown Manhattan's, but the high-rise buildings of south Bombay, with their glittering jewelry and dress showrooms, contrast sharply with the hovels and poverty of sidewalk dwellers.

The mixture of motorcars and carriages, the ladies beautifully dressed in lace and tulle and light satins and glittering jewelry, and the men in dinner clothes with pique waistcoats and white shirtfronts.

A fat woman in gaudy clothes danced sideways beside the column, showing a trayful of glittering jewelry.