Anent The Chain Fad

It is a season of chains - chains long, chains short, chains medium, but chains you must have if you would be in the swim. according to the New York Herald.

The very newest fad in these chains is one of medium length, which is hung around the neck and reaches to the bust, or just where the fancy yokes end. These chains have very artistic pendants attached to them, the pendants giving the finishing touch to the toilet. Certainly some of the pendants attached to these chains are works of art.

Some are Egyptian, in the red, blue and old gold colorings, while others are of the new "vert or" and gun metal  effects. By the way. this new coloring for gold chains, greenish in hue, just a little tarnished and brassy looking, is at the present moment all the rage in Paris. It is creating a perfect furore,  and everybody who pretends to be anybody is wearing jewelry in this "vert or" coloring.

Then, again, another fad which will be very popular is that of wearing old coins attached to long and short chains. The rarer, the older and odder these coins the smarter they are.

The chain is made of gold or silver, in large or small links, according to fancy. It encircles the neck, and pendent from it is an old coin or talisman, whichever the wearer rnay chance to be the possessor of. It is a "good luck" chain. Therefore a talisman or lucky piece is de rigueur. 

When a woman begins to wear a chain like this. she must never leave it off. It can be and will be worn twisted around the muff, taking the place of the "bunch of violets;" it can be twisted through the belt, after the fashion of a watch chain ; it can be used as a girdle with a tea gown. but it must always be in evidence after once being donned. Whether it is worn at night is a question too sacred to be asked unless the information should come gratis.

But the most popular chain of all with the young girls and widows will be the "memory chain. " This is a long chain of fine weave, caught here and there with quaint little slides, some representing the four leaf clover, heads, coins, mistletoe, pansies or any fancy which pleases the wearer. To the end of this chain, which hangs straight down in front as far as its length will allow - they are usually a yard and a half long, which when doubled would make them hang about three-quarters of a yard in length - is attached a ring, and on the ring are hung an unlimited number of charms and keepsakes, souvenirs and all kinds of fancies.

These charms can be in any fashion, according to the taste of the giver. There must be a pig among them, a four leaf clover. a chestnut, a sprig of mistletoe, a coin. But why go on enumerating the fads? They are endless.