Gypsies Set a Fashion. Barbaric Jewellery is Now Extensively Worn.

Otago Witness, Issue 2388, 7 December 1899, Page 52

Gypsies Set a Fashion. Barbaric Jewellery is Now Extensively Worn.

Are you wearing the new earring? Not to do so argues you- outside the fashion; very far outside it. You ask what the new earring is? It is really about as old as the hills. It is as old as the gypsies are. Some people call the big circlet a Creole ring, because the dusky beauties of that tribe love to loop through the lobes of their ears great wire rings. Gypsy or creole, be they what they may, there are the eaxrings of the hour. ■They have arrived opportunely, some devotees say. What with collar bands so neat and severe that they do not "furnish " the neck one bit, and our sleeves put an regardless of puff or pucker, we require something fussy to dangle and look pretty about our ears.

But all women should not wear them. The short-throated oues ought to be kept by force from them if necessary ; the tiny little woman should be also. They are only for the tall and stately. Miss Vanbrugh, the actress, wears them and looks splendid. Some women can, and they are wiae to do so. But it is a barbaric ornament — this cumbrous circlet — whether set with stones or left quite plain. One expects to heir the lazy lilt of the banjo or the mandoline in their company. They recall all sorts of quaint scenes in books one has read ; old stories, too, of wandering gypsies and their soothsaying powers.