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Earrings and Bracelets
"Needlecraft"
– April 1912
"The
modes of the present and coming summer call
for this artistic wearing of earrings and bracelets,
as most in keeping with the slender silhouette.
Earrings have their use not only to show the
beauty of a dainty ear, but to draw attention
to a softly tinted cheek, to develop the oval
of a face and to contrast with a clear skin.
Long earrings and round Gypsy hoops, glowing
round earrings of Florentine coral, oddly shaped
Baroque pearls, pendants of seed pearls, and
of jet and onyx, are fashionable.
And
bracelets to display the grace of a slender
arm, necessary to the days of short sleeves,
are plain, chased, or hand-engraved, many beautifully
stone-set, others wonderful flexible snake-
and novel woven straps with buckles."
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Contrasts
"Needlecraft"
January 1913
"Almost
inevitably we look for contrasts this season,
and contrasts can be so handled as to be brilliantly
successful. We have only to avoid garish color
effects, and the attempt to copy exceptional
combinations.
Colored
boots are being sold in prune, Russian green,
russet-brown, and other colors. And with the
afternoon toilette go shoes cut very low, and
made to match the dress in color; or, should
a black gown be worn, of any color introduced
by the trimming or the belt.
As
a rule, it will be observed that black shoes
are in good taste. The reason is not far to
seek. They make the feet look smaller than when
the shoe is of the colored variety. That is
a good and all-sufficient reason for the choice."
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Ribbon Around Throat
"Needlecraft"
– November 1913
"It
is good fashion to wear a band of black velvet
ribbon around the throat with either morning or
afternoon costumes. A narrow band of black moiré
ribbon fastened at one side with an antique paste
buckle is often worn instead of the velvet."
Ostrich
feathers
"Ladies
Home Journal" – September 1906
"Ostrich
feathers are much in favor this season. Although
the ostrich feather is quite costly it will serve
for many seasons on both summer and winter
hats." (Underlining mine.)
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Veils
"Needlecraft"
December 1913
The
most interesting of the new veils are imported.
French women, it is said, are not paying much
attention to veils this season, but American women
always like them. They are called novelties. Like
many new things, this novelty veiling is expensive
– partly because it is a novelty and partly
because it is well made. The mesh is of rather
heavy cotton threads, woven together to form lacelike
patterns on various sorts of backgrounds.
Some of the grounds are almost tulle-like fineness,
and some are lined heavily with threads running
parallel to one another, all in one direction,
from end to end of the veiling. Some have checked
backgrounds, squared off with heavy threads. This
veiling is made in both black and white.
These new veils are worn trimly and snugly fitted
over the hat brim, and are then drawn over the
face, slacked a little over the point of the nose
and chin, and pulled in in folds about the neck.
They are held together at the base of the hair
with veilpins or hairpins.
Unlike much that characterizes the present fashions,
they are the epitome of neatness. If they are
not drawn firmly and smoothly over the hat and
hair, they are not smart.
Lace veils, to be worn loosely with the larger
hats, are still fashionable. They are as varied
in design as in price, and that is saying a good
deal. The preference is given to a design which
shows a rather small, decided motif, repeated
with mathematical preciseness. The big, showy
allover design is not so much in favor as this
small, equally striking pattern."
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