The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-31
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veil. A little later there was the in
credible hustle to fluff up. Later STILL
big sleeves had to be pulled out to
widest extent. For half a dozen years
now, we've been pushing our belts
down in front, and this winter every
woman who respects herself properly
bracelets from time to time. Push
ing the belt down showed the hands
at disadvantage, and f1uff1ng UP a
hustle was inherently unattractive.
but. barring playing the harp, nothing
gives woman such an opportunity to
display curving fingers and delicately
turned wrists as this settling a brace
let in place It is the seasons man
nerism of gesture, and long may it
reign. 1t Is pretty, and so many of
the things Fashion has made US do
with our hands haven't been.
Writing in the New York Press on
the art of wearing jewels Helen Row
land says:
This is an age of bejeweled women!
Every woman is a collector of gems,
and madame, in her pink boudoir,
sparkles no more at waist, throat and
fingers with real gems than does Mary
Ann OF the kitchen in her paste and
putty. Indeed. SO perfect are imita-
ton jewels in these times that were
madame and Mary Ann to exchange
jewel boxes the world would be none
the wiser, for at passing glance you
can judge of the genuineness of
woman's diamonds and laces only by
the richness or tawdrfness of the rest
of her costume.
There are some women who seem
born to wear diamonds They can
cover their gowns, string their necks
and load down their heads with scin-
tllIatfng stones, gold and platinum,
and never seem overdressed or fiashy
looking. They are the Queenly women
who would look and feel quite as
much at home on a throne as in
rocking chair. But they are very rare.
Nine women out of ten who possess
Jewels are outshone by their gems and
don t seem to know it. The sparkle of
their coronets quite dims the sparkle
IN their eyes, and the wilderness of
thelr pearls makes their skin much
yellower. There are lots of rules for
the wearing of jewels, almost as IRON
bound as the rules for holding your
forks or using your spoons at a course
dinner; Most women fancy when they
have followed these, when they doff
their diamonds with daylight and wear
their pearls beneath their Jackets to
breakfast they have done all that is
required by etiquette. Doubtless thew
have acquired the etiquette, but they
have not attained the art of wearing
jewels.
A woman should study her refiec-
ton In the mirror long and honestly
before she pins on a single brooch or
slips ring on her finger. Her Jewels
should match her complexion and en-
phasize her personality just as per-
There are slim, ascetic girls, like Ethel
Barrymore, for instance, to whom no
jewel is an ornament. Hanging a 6ia-
mond necklace about the throat of
such girl is as decorative as putting
a tissue paper frill about the petals of
a wild rose. The young woman whose
face is so fresh and pure that she can
wear white muslin dresses, blue
sashes and natural flowers in her hair
merely eclipses her own beauty by
decking herself in diamonds A single
tiara will fling her personality to the
winds and will look as out of place
upon her as a bathing suit at a ball.
or a ball gown on the bathing beach.
Only blonde should wear pearls.
They accentuate the creaminess of a
perfect skin, but they make a dusky
and hard, and any but the whitest
teeth look dingy. The turquoise also
is for the blonde. It brings into clear
relief the blue in her eyes, the gold in
Even a blonde, however, should not
wear the pale blue stone In too great a
PROPULSION; for the turquoise is essen
TALLY loud and f1ashy. Just single
a small brooch or a finger ring. is
quite enough for woman of the
loudest taste.
The diamond is the stone of the
brunette. Only the flashing brown or
black eyes of the dark-skinned girl
can Withstand and overshadow its
br1lllancy. The golden hair of a
blonde is invariably paled and dulled
by the comparison with diamond
tiara, while that same tiara serves.
on the other hand, to make the mid
night darkness of black hair all the
more striking. Another of the bru-
nette's favorite stones is the topaz the
pale yellow lights of which would
make the brownest throat look creamy
and soft. In short, it takes an artist
to choose a woman's Jewels for her,
and only the woman who is an artist
should wear any at all.
Men do not admire a woman who
is decked out like a jewelers. dummy
What they like are the graceful, femi-
nizing bits of jewelry-a delicate
bracelet worn on a round arm, a tiny
string of pearls entwined in the hair,
a slender gold chain with a small pen
dant at the throat, a flashing ring or
little old-fashioned brooch. A man
likes things that dangle. and scintillate
and catch his eyes as tinsel catches the
eye of a baby, but too much scintilla-
ton, like too much tinsel, is binding.
a man likes to see girls Jewels be-
come her, suit her, feminine her, but
he does not care whit whether they
are real or paste, nor what she paid
for them.