New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 25, 1927, Page 31

Queen Marie crowned with one of the tiaras which she wears continually and which inspired the American smart set’s expensive new fad THEN Queen Marie « to her own f Rumania purpose ? “Danced and dined meaningless sant folks we h they we wrong, ical critics husband wealthy women in New Yo Boston, Philadel- phia, Chicago and points West and outh, are discov- ering when they come to the pay- ing of the holiday bills. Marie America a tangible remi of her stay, and it is one that will please the jewel- ers and plague the husba other bill-pay for many a day to come. is the craze ras. Diamond tiaras and pearl tiaras. Emerald tiaras and ruby t Simple tiaras ornate ones. Of all the t bles with which women delight to bedeck them- selves, tiaras are the most gor- geous, magnifi- cent, regal, and —expensive, A neat little affair that will not subject its weaver t6 the em- barassment of too much staring will stand the purchaser $25,000 or $30,000. You may pay a great deal more if you please. A tiara which, with its setting, is worth less than $15,000, imply no tiara at all, and tiaras which are set with old family gems may cost any sum and rival the crowns that East Indian princes kecp concealed in strong-boxes, P 3 5 o RPN ;. el save at coronation time. Rumania’s beautiful and urbane queen dazzled the eyes of all feminine behold- ers during her stay in America by the gorgeousness of the tiara she continually wore. While she was here nobody imitated her openly, but her foot had not crossed Fashionable Society’s New Craze for Adorning Its Heads With the Most' Expensively Jeweled Tiaras All a Result of the Example Set by Her Majesty During Her Recent Visit Here On right, one of the world’s most prec- ious head- dresses— the official crown of England. It is made of zold and richly studded with pearls, liamonds, rubies, em- eralds and sapphires. the gangpl. before fas Stotesbury of Philadelphia and her famous tiara of square cut emeralds and dia- monds, set in platinum and forming, with the match- ing necklace, pendant and ear-rings, one of the most exquisite sets of jewels in existence. ¢ for the return to Europe onable women were throng- ing the exclusive and expensive jewelry shops. In the parterre at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House, sacred to wealth and fashion, the display of jewelry suddenly became more brilliant than it ever has been before. are everywhere. Not to own one is like Tiaras not owning a grandfather—or having had one who worked for a living. In the night clubs and the theaters, at the debutante dances and the dinners of the elite, tiaras are adorning blonde, brunette, titian and gray hair that hitherto knew only the discipline of the permanent wave. Lucky, indeed, the ladies with tiaras in their jewel boxes, or sufficient money to buy one. Mrs. C. Whitney Carpenter, Jr., the former Fannie Tailer, who, when a d butante, was one of the most run- r girls in the smart set, was one of the first to wear a tiara, fo parture of Queen Marie. Probably she would indignantly that the example of the Queen ins her to get hers out of storage it to the opera, but, an did. And she was the center of fe interest as she made her way to the box of Mrs. Ogden Bacon. Mrs. Carpenter is tall and slim as a dryad. The tiara on her golden hair made her quite as regal and fascinating a figure as the Rumanian Queen herself It was a bona fde ti for Mrs. Carpenter, & iy the parterre bloomed with t ing each other in size a 4 "rilli Now that precious stones a as part of the convention there is a rumor that a certain rich n is being importuned by his wife her the Romanoff crown, which is s to be for sale. Just at present he is standing firm like the French before Verdun, but if he doesn’t weaken, some h ably will. Tt is regarded as only a mat- ter of time before patrons of the opera will see that Russian erown graci brow of the daughter of some railrc magnate or the granddaughter of some mining king. It has been many ornaments were as popu gifts as they were this ionable jewelers agree. A visit to onc famous New York shop revealed that only two tiaras were left over after the Christmas rush. society women were among the shop’s holiday customers. O the tiaras not purchased w: ) at §27,000, and the other was slightly cheaper. Most modern tiaras are made of plat- inum, and may be studded with any stones. Jewelers, who have suddenly discovered a rea! interest in Rumania, and would make Marie the patron saint of their guild (if this were the Middle Ages), are telling that it doesn’t matter whether the hair is black, titian, blonde or gray, a tiara of almost any kind of stones will set off a woman's beauty. Thanks to Queen Marie and her re- lowing the de- and w way, wear it to bu sband prob- r the s since head ar as Christmas season, the fash- Actresses as well customers On the right, Mrs. E d B. McLean the well-known Washington cociety woman and the mag- tiara which is wearing this to social func- tions at the White Housc and elsewhere nifice The tiara worn by Mrs. Arthur Meeker, a leader of Chi- cago fashionabl~ society discovery of the head as a parking place for prec res, it is possi f v i to wear as much 1,000,000 worth of stones on her n¢ son on a grand occasion without loc liculous. man can do that and still not guady, s Fifth Avenue jewelers. or two of pearls, a pendant and sapphires a brooch of e size, a ring or two, set w s you are s can cost a half nd in New York are sev- worth that s 1 do, the plane of several iillion dollars know to be much. women, | can v there will be a dozen or more costing at least th by the time the snow goes in the spring S — is metals for the adorn > the most in- and have most b Ty, Caius Caesar's owned a tiarra worth about two million dol- lars in our money, and it was her favorite or- The old eeks knew the beau- the ties of tiara were women. T of all, of simple band or chapl flowers, w herdesses and nd many their tiaras wo by rse, were of ribbon of natural rn by shep- rmers’ daughtors long medieval graced with a rand of gold Iver, joined by one ge stone that rested in the middle of the forchead. In the fif- teenth century, fi bands and were worn cv ot where of separate metal, | piec ‘ned by .-+ It was worn by women 4 of the nobil nd the v upper middle classes. Throughout the Middle Ages, the tiaras continued to become complicated, and expensive. One historian f jewelry quotes from a sales c neerning an more elaborate, alogue auction in Cambridge, centuries ago The articles included “a cordnal of gold, wrought with stones that is to say, with u sapphires, emeralds and pearls.” About 1820, there was a return to simplicity for the time Plain ds, with a jewel clasp, began to be being. Napaleon's Josephine never at- 'air of moment without a tende any jeweled comb and a diadem of precious ced, chroniclers of the time was so fond of her head- into the bath. very fond of ess, and her tiara, now in the Tower of London, is splendid stones. I dress that she wore i Queen Victoria wa jeweled headd enough to cause a sigh of envy to escape even the wife of an oil or sugar magnate. It is a velvet cap with an ermine border, covered with diamonds, pearls, sapphires and emeralds, set in silver and gold. On rer holds more wonds and two cven pearl " by George Ph.D.,, and LLM. and ons of several ns of ancient ter which many of £ patterned. the most famous crowns in is that of the who was King It is com- I of gold, four inches meter. This of a hinge, of gold, set “aria, called and the band it- studded with thirty large Oriental pphires of the greatest 1 “One of ground encrusted with the red above T nd large letters i nerusted, formir 15 Rex Offeret.’ pendant with a s a huge, pear- ful of the mod- s the Crown of ward, the offi- T s used at each © original crown of this ed by the republicans * time of the coron. IT another crown was its place. The work was done under the direction of Sir Robert Viner. As f; was cial Crown coronation name was de in 1649 tion of Charles ir as we know, this crown exact c of the older one, Edward the Con- s even by King Alfred. ise at present is of ! with pearls and kinds, dia- alds and sapphires. gold on top, and on gold, ornamented with s tached to r pendant from the was wor ious reisam this, a cross very large oval the top, ends of t For many vears now tiar: of fashion, particularly ciety of rep have been in the so- en in monarchies, rare as bustles and at coronations and eir return to favor then the arqument of the vle'” moves circle if one out olies. F they were near! mockers that * can only