Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1911 — NEWEST IN SHELL PINS [ARTICLE]

NEWEST IN SHELL PINS

Designers Turn From Combs to Make Attractive Tortoise Pins for the Hair. Since the modern coiffure leaves little room for shell combs, tortoise shell designers are bending their energies to making attractive hairpins with heavy heads and curved wavy lines. One of the newest pins has a pronounced outward curve at the top on the order of a hooked handle. This enables it to slip over the puffs and curls so much worn. One good looking pin for heavy hair has the top in a semi-circular curve like a double coll. There is no carving, only the handsome marking of fine shell. Another set of crook tops is divided in four waving hands. Sometimes these are plain shell, those for evening wear studded with brilliants or designs in paste. New and smart Is the bar-shaped top to hairpins. A barette comes to match. The open lines of these are sometimes plain, again studded with rhinestones or decorations in gold or silver. A handsome barette of moderate dimensions is an oblong piece of light shell of exquisite marking studded w’lth entwined scrolls and loops of raised gold dots. The newest real shell hairpins are quite small and light, as It is no longer fashionable to have the head look like a walking arsenal. These are lost so easily that the average woman wears Imitation shell. The real ones will drop less easily from the hair if the prongs are decidedly curved. To keep shell In good condition it should be rubbed dally with a piece of chamois skin to prevent that ugly blur making headway. When the shell is once dimmed it must be sent to the manufactory for repolishing. If a number of tortoise shell articles are to be polished it will be cheaper to send them direct to a manufacturer of shell goods than to a jeweler.