The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1931-12-20
DIAMONDS ARE
POPULAR GIFTS
FOR CHRISTMAS
Women Are Willing Pris-
oners When Handouts
Are Jeweled
By ELEANOR RUTTENBER


Christmas cards sparkled with
srov and little white scintillating
faxes fell over the white church
sgre in the distance, while a great
twinkling star blazed in the gen.
eral direction of the East. Those
frosted cards probably thrilled the
awe-struck little girls of that gen.
Grafton as much as diamonds thrill
the sophisticated young person OF
today.
If our Christmas cards do not
sparkle as they did, our Christ
mas gifts do It's lean Yuletide
that does not bring at least one
diamond bracelet to the debut
ante. Women, young and old,
have become a slave to bracelets;
they are never happy, or even
well-dressed, unless their wrists are
weighed down with some sort of
bracelet, from the dozen or more
plain gold or alternating silver and
gold bangles to the more elaborate
jeweled types which are wide and
enquisitely designed or are made
of strands of beads drawn togeth-
er at diamond center.
JeweIed Han dcuffs
Women are willing prisoners
when their handouts are jeweled.
Even for the woman who has
everything" another bracelet is al
ways welcome. One might have,
perhaps, too many rings, particu-
larly now since one large import
ant ring is preferred to several
smaller ones, but bracelets-never.
This is particularly true since we
have formed the ensemble habit.
Not that jewels are intended to
match the costume, but they are
expected to be in the same mood.
The costume jewelry fad was
born of such need, but If one
but realized it, genuine pieces may
be found to carry out the ensemble
idea, pieces that are decorative
in the extreme but not necessarily
costly, such as the sports jewelry
which is far simply and often more
colorful than formal or street
types. Even bracelets are now
worn for sports and while dia-
mond wrist watches may be taboo,
there are scores of effective
watches, some mounted on clips
which you will admit are new
Things have come TO such pass
that the smart woman feels almost
as obligated to have a watch fol
every type costume as a handbag
The more elaborate of these, BY
the way, are very unusual as tc
frame, some of them beautifully
studded with jewels or ornamented
with clasps of precious, or semi
precious stones. Here, too, clip;
come in useful, and here too tiny
jeweled watches are to be LISTED
among the decorations Jade fol
luck and also for effect is one o.
the slogans of the smart woman.
Smart Combination
If you belong TO the follow-th'
leader-type-of-woman, and mos
of US do, you will be interested il
hearing that jade with diamonds
and sometimes a dash of oynX O.
coral, is a combination the smar
Nev Yorker is wearing hither anC
y0n, even to the opera, -anothe
ensemble jewelry influence. Won
en- who have a prejudice agains
synthetic gems and yet are in
trigued by the colorful costum
types quite naturally respond t
the semi-precious varieties O
gems, particularly those in color
sympathetic to current color pref
erences in clothes, which jade I'm
questionably is.
Really good pieces cost httl
more than some of the bette
grade costume types, which by tn
way, are not to be despised if you
tastes run that way. Some {
them are very effective, but TIL
is largely because they are fash
ionable.
Short and Merry
Therefore a short and merry lii