The Washington times., 1917-06-16
BEADED BELTS ARE
MLADY'S NEWEST FAD
Beaded Neck Chains, Earrings, and
Rings Part Of Costume.
ny MARGARET MASON.


This season of 1917 Is the
season Of the betting reign. Belts GER
tainly reign supreme as the fad of
the moment, and the shops and waist
lines OF the fair are simply flooded
with them, provided, of course, that
they are beaded. For a belt without a
bead on these days is as fiat as a
draught OF matted brew is without the
same.
Some OF the beaded belts are fiat
fiat anyway. These are the long, fiat
girdles deliberately and soli-y beaded,
seventeen gayly colored designs, with
fringed ends OF beads that are worn
with the loose, straight-lined chemise
gowns. These are suggestive OF and,
indeed, many are fashioned by Indians
South, Central, and our own North
American tribes. Indian rope girdles
OF beads with beaded tasselIated ends
are also popular.
For wear outside OF the new loose
SILK coats and wraps are the oriental
and royal girdles of metal links, al
ternHting with large beads, disks or
squares OF imitation Jade, crysophrase
and lapis lazuli, or with canoes, Chi
nese coins or Jet nail heads.
Loads Herself With Chains.
The more fantastic the color COM
binations OF these girdIes, the more
deliberately chased and carved the
metal links, the more effective and
stunning they are. Almost all of
them finish with omnipresent tassel
in metal or beads.
Though she struggles to be free,
lovely woman still periodically
loads herself with chains Not con-
tent even with these beaded chain
belts and girdles, she further shack
les herself by gaYly slipping her neck
into rope OF beads and metal links
that ape the metal girdIes on a inner
scale. An artistic one OF slender
silver links broken here and there
with balls OF blue lapis added Just
the right touch to a charming putty
toned gabardine trimmed in embroid-
cred bits Of lapis blue and putty
tassels, worn the other day. Really
nowadays your costume is not com
plete unless you wear one Of the
metal girdles or neck chains, ear
rings. and finger ring whose beaded
charms bring out the telling color
note OF your gown.
Behold. the evolution OF the bead
certainly makes the busy B. From
bag to belt, from belt to bosom,
and from bosom to bean" we have
It. For now every swagger bonnet
has a bit of beading on 1t. Some Of
them are beaded to beat the band
with bands OF beads, and yet others
rely solely on a single ornament OF
beads in front. back or side, or
wherever the beads will be most
telling.
Run to Animal Effects.
The ornaments rather run to animal
effects, and beaded Dummies, birds,
felines, and fishes perch rakIshIy
abaft a bonnet. Chandelier in gaudy
beadery is a popular favorite, though
il isn't necessarily a cooked hatNhat
sports this cocky design.
Beads Of wood, beads Of glass. and
beads OF every known composition,
color. and design adorn our headgear.
and thus the bead craze may be said
TO have reached its proper level, for
you see whether on beer or bonnets
you can't keep a good bead down.
II is odd TO pause in the midst Of
our beads and consider how all the
world has a beaded bend in common,
and how all the four corners Of the
earth meet us on a fashionable foot
ing or rather beading. From China
We gather in a glory of beads, and
Indian and Turkey lay further ones
at our fashionable shrine. We sport
Indian beads from the three Americas.
glass and pearl beads from Italy uud
to account for the impetus given
wooden beads in our hat ornamental
ton comes this story.
A village OF French peasants for
years has piled their wooden bead
craft. When their village was shelled
by the German guns the survivors Ned
to Paris. Here. knowing nothing else
save their life work OF fashioning
beads OF wood, they returned to their
craft. They turned them out to he
eagerly seized upon by the Partisan
modistes as just the novelty they
yearned for. Hence, as usual. the re-
ply 10 all our presentdAy fads and 1
fSnclssS the war, mesdameS, II again |
The answer.