Boston - May 17, 2006

The Circle Game

Katie Gulde Necklaces

To some, style is a straight line from point A to point B. Find a look you like and stick with it. End of story.

Not Katie Gulde. The 25-year-old Bostonian and jewelry designer has thrown accessorizing for a loop — quite literally — by collecting 1950s Lucite rings and creating ultra-cool necklaces out of them.

Gulde strings together rings of various sizes and colors (white with gold to navy, bright red, and multicolor), transforming them into eye-catching designs that are a perfect foil for both dressier get-ups and jeans. (They look especially fetching against this season’s neutrals.)

The hard-to-find beads that she uses were made by a warehouse that stopped producing them in the ’70s, which means they’re collector’s items. But in Gulde’s capable hands they become something doubly covetable — and, vintage though they might be, entirely new.

So, to others, style is circular.

As in, what comes around goes around.

Available at Mint Julep, 6 Church Street, Cambridge (617-576-6468).