The Archive · 1923

By Elizabeth Pepys

The well turned out woman of to-day has so many things to "consider that it is a marvel that her carefully coiffured hair does net turn grey beneath the burden of remembering the momentous trifles. One of the greatest strains must be the constant effort of appearing "'simple.""

Clothes are plain with the exensive restraint of the leading parisian creators, heads are "naturally" dressed in the new shingle or turned out with the careless effect which only a trained hair-dresser can impart, and now our jewelry must be unassuming. In the less sophisticated days of long ago real jewelry was taboo for mornings, but now in order te present a truly fresh and ingenue appearance one must have pearls to indicate guileless innocence.

It would be difficult for the smart woman who knows what is truly what to attain the acme of elemental girlishness as she apher artless trotter from Lelong ears in the dewy morning in

without an insignificant string of pearls about her throat. Three would be better. It will help one to feel ingenuous and unaffected to wear one or more large naive black or pink solitaire pearls set in straightforward rings. These trial decorations may be worn all day Jong, with any unpretentious costumes to fit the hour of the day. You see a real, pearl is like royalty travelling inccgn: to, it can accommodate itself to all conditions. It is exquisite, but uncomplex.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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