CHINESE JADE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17336, 6 December 1919, Page 4 (Supplement)

CHINESE JADE.

We are .exhibiting an extraordinary craze for entomology in the matter of our personal adornments just now, and especially where our chassures are concerned. The butterfly has always been more or less a popular feature on evening shoes, but this year we are by no mean inclined to stop at the butterfly, and many winged creatures, whether created by Nature or simply the fruits of a vivid imagination on the part of the manufacturer, are poised lightly on the danity slippers of gold or silver tissue or rich brocade, or even deco. rate some of the hats. Prettiest of all, however, are the debutante's slippers of white and silver tissue with " flies' wings" of white tulle, showered ever so lightly with diamond dewdrops, and caught down with little p?.ste buckles. These have ji dainty appropriateness to the flying feet of the young wearers, which give them a special significance. The craze for the wearing of " birthstones" grows apace, and necklaces are becoming: longer and longer. Chinese jade unquestionably leads the van. but Chinese jade has no particular month tacked on to it, and, consequently, the long pale green necklaces in question are finished with pendants in which the lucky stone or some mascot carried out in jade to match hangs from it. To possess a mascot is just as much a matter of fashion as it is of belief in its infallibility, as even our bags nowadays are not infrequently adorned with little ivory figures which are dignified by this position. The jade mwcot appears, besides to have a special significance, and its grotesquene.Sji seems only to endear it still more to its possessor.