Fashion 88 : Wrapping Up the Holidays : Gift Ideas That Add a Little Glitter to the Celebrations of the Season

HOW EASY IT WOULD BE if everyone just wanted their two front teeth for Christmas. With no such luck, the brave have gone shopping again, crowding the aisles, ganging up at the gift-wrap counters. Debates are waging at this very moment over which is more fit to be tied: the paisley or the stripe cravat, the silver- or the gold-embossed earrings, Calvin Klein’s Obsession or Elizabeth Taylor’s Passion.

Shall we pass on pink altogether and give wee Jenny something chic in forest green or black? Baby Boom Boom in Beverly Hills carries $58 green or black knit jumpsuits, trimmed with white crochet collars. What about fake fur for the big girls in our lives to show our love of luxury, our sensitivity to animals? Madeleine Gallay on Sunset Boulevard has an assortment of French faux- mink handbags, priced $148 to $212. And if someone is doggedly determined to give a classy gift, here’s one idea: a raw-silk houndstooth scarf ($120), a unisex item available in Bullocks Wilshire’s men’s department.

For additional fit-to-be-tied gifts, Fashion88 offers the shoes, musical socks, silk camisole, more-Hollywood-than-thou denim jacket and assorted goodies pictured here.