Evening star., 1921-12-26
Fashion for Odd Necklaces.
BY ANNE RITTENHOUSE,

Such brilliant colors as the dress
makers devise for the hipline have
never been worn since Rome fell into
insignificance.
There is Il lady in Paris of power
and magination who wears fresh
flowers instead Of artificial ones about
her thin hips, and we'll it is they are
thin. She changes these flowers sew
eral times at one party. What more
could the fantastic ladies surrounding
Marie Antoinette have done to show
the WElmS icallty OF fashion? Tulips
Supplaht roses. poppleS are subS,l-
tuted for dahlias. Her admirers await
Sirdles as eagerly rs the crowd in
fiont OF base bail bulletin board
await the next nome run.
There was once an American debu-
tante who drew attention to herself
by changing her bouquet every hour
at a party to SHOW the world that
! her suitors were legion. and possibly
II; was She who set the later fashi on
Tor debutantes to carry each of their
special bouquets for Il few moments
, during their coming -out party.
Will this lady of Paris set the fash
=; ion for varying girdles? Will she turn
cur attention to girGleS of natural
, flowers? Will this become the new
and established manner of filling the
florists purses: Once in the older
decades Dnien carried roWers to
tve'y evening entertainment. but
hose We're the days when III" Mag
-lilcent AmDerSonS led society. The
a*hion may spring to life again
nr"ugh the ac;lun vi Il French leader
Il society, for girditS-ciIangIns GiI-
,'les-of fresh flowers wound about
che h'ES and dangling to the ankles.
rs d new note to strike i'll IL duh sea-
, son.
As if the fashion for natural flow
iers had taken away Il bit Of trad"
from the dressmakers women of fasn-
ioit, to ;tpt;ease them. are wearing
ODD necklaces of gold OF silver cord
; 'ht ut their neckS as Il kind Of htr-
iiSsS. As thasc are worn with Suut,:u-
Gus clothes. they prove not Il make
shift for i:w.ts No. poverty is rot
the reason. Fashion is behind the
move.
Gold cord is considered Il bit more
i; fashionable than silver. which is
strange. because the latter has taken
first place whenever metals We're in
troduced into clothes during the post
war period Gold slippers gave way
TO silver ones. gold tissue WAS Sheivri
and silver TISSUE brought into the
light for the slips under thin gowns.
silver braid was preferred to gold.
Now there is evidence a-pieEty tlla:
gid is TO be pushed to the front
some one has ,a"Se stock of it. is
the way the shrtw wa ones talk.
Sometimes these gold cord necklaces
worn in the evening over tee bare
skln-for. mind YOU. they are not
worn over the fabric of q high frnck-
'consist of several strips banded to-
geshcr with slides Of jet OF rninn-
stones. Asair, merely the single strap
is used. crossing over the chest and
winding about the hips.
Such neck adornment does not con-
f:ct with a lowered girtlle. although
II would he a prebahi" enemy to thc
ornate metallic and crystal gildi.
that fashion Instituted in the begin
:iirG Of the season. FioWrrS, how ever.
real or artii.ci:l. pcrr!it of any kind
of metal in combination.
The French argue for a slim necklace
# sem" x Nd with every truck that
has bsteau neckline. They say it
breaks the severity of the ot!ons
renirg across the collarhoue. " omen
who have followed their advice find