Accessories are as Good as Gold!

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23719, 27 July 1940, Page 5 (Supplement)

Accessories are as Good as Gold!

A"EVER before have accessories been so lavish as at the present time, when no costume is considered complete without its quota of matching accents. Clothes are especially designed in "under-statement," so that they can bear the addition of the most highly decorative belts, jewels and ornaments. The wealth of a Avardrobe to-day lies not in the number of garments possessed but in the number of accessories that may be produced. This accounts for the _ great to-do where costume jewellery is concerned. Hardly a dress looks complete without its garnishing of gold. Gilt bibs of many chains and Jinks and circle necklines or else gilded mesh chokers clasp the throat as closely as collars. ( Momentous Mementoes Costume pieces are the necklets made from gold coins, ancient and modern, or of the wheels taken from the inside of old gold watches strung together on chains. High dog-collars are concoctions of beads and silver thread. No combination of gems or pseudo-gems is too weird either. Corals and turquoises are seen togetherj moonstones and garnets collaborate in one necklet. Rock crystals and amber go into sparkingly successful partnership. Family jewels relegated to obscurity are worthy of renewed consideration. A wartime revival is the desire to have the portraits, hand-painted miniature or photographic, of loved ones worn in a locket at the throat or on the lapel: and no lockets are 1 so lovely as the old ones. Hair-brooches and lockets are reminders of Victorian sentiments that still look decorative at the throat

of a gown, and old-fashioned mourning bracelets and rings look well with colourful modern outfits now that their association is no longer sorrowful. Cairngorm brooches, antique clips and old jewelled pins are shown on miiliner3 - models. One New York designer has a hoard of exotic trinkets brought from Bali. Little globular cases, hand-wrought in silver and gold, are used by native Balinese women to hold small wads of fibre soaked in perfume; but this dpsigner suggests them for hanging on a belt to carry powder or pills. These cases resemble Victorian sovereign cases in size and the similarity lends itself to the idea of wearing a sovereign case on the belt to hold small change. If you don't mind snooping round old antique dealing establishments or second-hand shops you will find that these old-world jewellery pieces are more inexpensive than you'd dream possible. Old-fashioned cufflinks found in this J way may be con- g ff verted into button H/yg a tTT. earrings of the type so much in jf demand right now. &