Style Notes - Spring 1920 - Oriental and Egyptian

From a NY Times article, Feb 29, 1920....

"Bead necklaces continue to be good and jade is the leading color for the new season. Last Spring red was the color. There is a touch of the Oriental in all necklaces. One manufacturer displays a line of necklaces in both round and odd shaped beads. Complete sets, consisting of beads, bar pins, and bracelets, in which the same design appears are being shown. Some of the necklaces are beads and links, while others are made entirely of the beads

Bracelets are once again becoming favorites..... A vogue for wearing two or three bracelets one each arm is promised. Earrings will not be worn so much this Spring....a change in the style of coiffure must occur before much interest will be taken with earrings. Those that are being shown are mostly the long Egyptian designs, some of which seem almost like weights, because a large French pearl or fancy jade ball hangs on a slender sterling chain."