BRACELETS AND BANGLES

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 132, 30 November 1935, Page 19

BRACELETS AND BANGLES

The sari headdress and Indian draperies so fashionable now have influenced new jewellery designs, states an English fashion writer. These are Eastern in appearance. Wide bracelets in gold and silver have a jade or other jewelled bangle attached. Intricate filigree is also seen on wide-cuff-like .bracelets. Worn over a softlyrucked sac glove, they have a pleasing effect. ■

Charm bracelets of fine link chains are another fashion, from which you can. hang your favourite luck-bringing mascots. Two or three narrow bangles can also be worn over your glove. Shiny bracelets of coloured glass resembling sugar candy, picking up the gay tones of the scarf or hat, are smart sports jewellery notes. A slave bangle idea for the beach is expressed in glazed cork with coloured bird-seed decorating the outside rim. Link bracelets with block letters spelling out a name are another notion.

PERFUME IN SMOKY ROOMS

The vogue for classical and Renaissance dress has affected fashion in perfume, states the London "Daily Telegraph." Ladies of the Renaissance scented their rooms by burning pastilles and heavy aromatic scents to obviate the unromantic odours of the streets of the time, and as a remedy against plague.

Perfume burning in rooms where cocktail parties are heid. or where much bridge and bezique encourage players of both sexes to chain-smoke, .is to be a feature of autumn entertaining.

Instead of the musk-laden pungent perfumes of the late Middle Ages, flower scents like verbena and lily of the valley are combined in a scented spirit to be burned in a perfume lamp.

Round lamps, in colours to match the drawing-room scheme of the hostess, or to tone with her flowers, have the power actually to absorb smoke fumes. At one perfumery salon these are being chosen every day in preference to the ladles for heating in a fire. They fire a very recent invention from Brighton. >