There are many lengths of pearls but only one conveys purity mixed with eros—the single-strand choker of the ingénue, worn midway between jawline and collarbone. Grace Kelly in “Rear Window” (1954) is ...

the elder Dunlap gave his son his copy of “Gray’s Anatomy,” its cover adorned with Henry Vandyke Carter’s arresting illustration of a neck flayed for dissection, revealing tubes, muscles ...