It weighs in at close to three pounds, and looks about as pretty as a catcher's mask. Nonetheless, the most popularif not downright explosiveaccessory that is circling around these days is the bullet belt.
Made of brass cartridges, linked together and fastened by several dummy bullets at the front, the belt first turned up in London this fall. There, two sharp-eyed American women zeroed in on it. Francine Farkas, wife of the president of the Alexander's Department Stores in New York, arranged to import the British version, presently selling out (at $25). Caren Ross, a Philadelphia housewife, bought the belt "purely for...
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