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OTHERS WHO MAKE A FASHION STATEMENT

Blast from the past

Iris Worthington, 70, has an elegant gold cross with diamonds, which she made into an ankle bracelet. The cross came from a blast from her past as a way to renew a friendship, which began as puppy love in late 1949.

When Worthington was a soda jerk at Tepe's Sundries in Potwin, a handsome guy from Arizona, who was visiting his cousins for the summer, asked for a lemon root beer. For the next three summers, they would share several lemon root beers, usually on Saturday evenings.

Two and a half years ago, Worthington received a surprise phone call from him. The man had tracked her down using the Internet. Soon after the phone call, a package arrived with the cross.

Embracing a style

Ellie Fischer, 72, has about 600 Bakelite bracelets in different colors. The hard plastic ensures that her bracelets don't break, she said. She started collecting them in 1991 and has so many that she stores them in the second bathroom of her home. She also collects watches and has 50 to 60 of them.

Say it with color

Cherie Wenderott-Shields has several fashion accessories that help her make a statement. In the winter, she cannot live without her Italian purple snakeskin boots. In the summer, it's her Baby Phat white capris with gold stitching. But throughout the year, it's jewelry, including a bracelet she purchased in Puerto Rico that has hand-carved flower-shaped beads.

Linking generations

Cindy Dick, 49, wears a necklace that her grandmother gave her when she was 14. The necklace has her birthstone, amethyst, with a diamond above it. She had identical necklaces made for both of her sisters with their respective birthstones. Dick said that the necklaces help the them feel closer even though they live far apart.

Tie one on

Catherine Lewis wrote in about her 14-year-old daughter's fashion statement: bows. Sarah Lewis wore a bow in her hair every day last school year. The Robinson Middle School student had several colorful bows, including a large blue one that her mother loves.

Read all about it

For years, librarian Beverley Olson Buller at Chisholm Middle School in Newton has collected and worn pins that bear messages about reading.

She started wearing them when she was a language arts teacher and now has more than 20 of them.

One of them says "He who reads not, knows not." But the one she wears the most is shaped like a large apple that says, "Librarians love kids and books."

Icess Fernandez