ABOUT PINS

NZ Truth, Issue 1214, 7 March 1929, Page 16

ABOUT PINS

Points That Interest

Everyone knows that brooches > and pins to-day are not for holding things together. "They are purely arid simply ornaments, arid as such are jabbed indiscriminately into garments at any angle at all. Their . sole use is to be decorative. THE latest gadget is a brooch like a ■*y little libbon bow made of gold or platinum and either studded with "diamonds" or engraved m some Chaste design. Tiiey are placed -. anywhere on the* corsage or at the -waistline. Another attractive brooch is made with a square -cut greenstone iri the centre glowing, like a great emerald, set ln P arlsia n paste, w'h ieh is now known to the initiated as strass. The great idea is to place these brooches on places like the top of the shoulder or halfway round the waistline, or even on the. skirt if the frock is an evening goAvn of plain material. Wristlets have carried the day for arm jewellery, and are made of rings of strass, flexible snake bracelets, or tiny pearls. .'■' Parasol handles now have carved heads of animals as their knobs. Since we have taken to cuff-links with our jumpers and sports suits, t.nere lias been a raid on what used to be man's exclusive privilege, and many are the laments because we can't be frothblowers! Gold and enamel links are popular with heads of animals, particularly horses, and also rnqther o' pearl and gold : links shaped like pearl buttons „..,.,, with- threads of gold where the sewing' cotton would go. . Very smart, for wearing with a tailored costume is .a: watch strap of reptile' skiii cut faiiiy. wide; and finished -with a' double line; of' stitching; , ; 'These ; straps always -look attractive and apart altogether from the utility of such, any ornament it- is one. of^ those small, links, that; all go to make up the chain- ot. smartness. ■