| Show The Right light Thing at the j fl Right fl A Time TT j By MARY MARSHALL DUFFEE J I IJ WHAT ABOUT RINGS The apparel oft ott proclaims the man man- Shakespeare T MAY be that some friend of yours I IT In Paris will write and amI tell you that they are wearing rings outside outside out out- side of ot their gloves In the French capItal capital capital cap cap- ital and from New York you OU may hear that this fad has reached this side of the Atlantic But In spite of at this Information information In in- formation you will probably not choose to wear your rings In this way and to do so would show not very good taste If you belong to Just a sane average average av ny- gr group up of mortals who do not strive after the new and unusual In dress For to wear rings over the gloves lo es Is still so unusual that It would make you ou tremendously conspicuous If it you oU attempted it But It has bas been an established custom and there Is a fa far famous portrait of a queen showing her with a n large ring on n th the Index finger of her gloved right hand A few actresses and women who like the unusual In dress did wear rings on the Index finger Linger a n season or so ago but It was a passing fad and not an nn attractive one at that You will notice notice no no- tice too that women of ot taste practically practically cally never ne wear rings on the middle finger They appear especially n awkward awkward awk awk- wk ward there The They ure are now worn almost almost al nl most always either on the ring finger or on the little finger It Is not In vcr very good taste and It was never ne attractive to wear many rings on one finger Fingers weighed down by diamonds Indicate that the wearer Is more anxious to show the value of ot her rings than their beauty A married woman does not wear nn any ring but her wedding and anti en engagement iH ring or her wedding ring alone on aD her left hand ring finger Of 01 course there are some married and engaged women who do not care much for the wearing of these betrothal and antI wedding wedding wed wed- ding ling rings who sometimes substitute for them a ring of another sort But ButIn ButIn Butin In this case the other ring should be worn Instead of ot the wedding or betrothal betrothal be be- ring and und not with It The fhe time old-time rule used to be that n well bred woman never wore diamonds In the morning and you ou will still notice notice no tice that most women wohlen of taste wear none save In the form of ot their enfa engagement engage engage- eo ment ring At least one should not wear wear diu diamonds monds save an engagement ring on the golf course or for any athletic athletic ath ath- letic meeting It Is extremely bad form to wear rings in profusion In fn a business business business busi busi- ness office In general children are not permitted to wear nn any very valuable valuable valuable able rings and find the most discriminating mothers perhaps do not permit their children to wear weal any an rings at all Girls are not usually permitted to we wear l' l precious precious pre pre- cious clous stones until they have bave come out or are seventeen or eighteen at least There Is a rule In most hospitals that the nurses In training should not wear any rings and the sensible young oung woman does not object to this Copyright 0 |
