Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-10-15
VOL. Is. NO. PA.

request with purchasers, OF late and, without
doubt will reappear to advantage on the boards
OF the Academy on Friday night. There is
kind of airy, floating grace about these lighter
fabrics which fully compensates for their lack
of other qualities.
The Vanderbilt has among her freight some
of the most costly dresses ever imported into
this country, and which the memorable custom
house officers have not yet handed over 10 the
owners, despite their urgent entreatles, and
the anxiety and Impotence OF the hundreds OF
fair expectant>, who have been on tptOe dur
ing the last four or five weeks in regard to
them.
There is not a fashionable establishment in
the city that has not something especial for
the ball-either dresses, laces, trimmings, Golf
fres, or the hundred and one articles which
are indispensable on such an occasion.
X
The jewellers have been doing an immense
business. Never before was there such a pro.
titabe season for them, and in some instances
they find it almost impossible to keep pace
with the demands that are daily made for the
rarest and most costly ornaments One firm
alone-that of Tiffany & Co.--have sold in
two weeks necklaces, bracelets tiaras brooch
es &C., to the amount of one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars, while other establish.
ments have come in for their share of the
golden harvest. The ladies appear to have
been seized with a sudden mania for the most
costly articles of jewelry, and nothing less
than diamonds and pearls will satisfy them in
the way of precious stones.
The impulse which has been given to the
business has also inaugurated new era, and
we have no doubt the time will come when
some of our wealthiest ladies may vie,
in the value and extent of their bijouterie with
some OF the wealthiest of their titled sisters in
any OF the European courts. Fifteen and six.
teen thousand dollars for necklace is getting
to be quite an ordinary affair, and we should
not be surprised one of these days to hear of
forty or any thousand dollars being paid for a
full set. In no other department of manufac-
ture or art is there such a variety, or such
wide field for the display of artistic taste and
ingenuity. 1t would be impossible to follow
the novelties and changes that are constantly
taking place in these exquisite products Of hui
man genius and skill, for no matter what may
be said to the contrary, as works of art they
are deserving of all the praise that has been
bestowed upon them. In the establishment al
ready named they have disposed of nearly two
dozen diamond brooches, varying in price from
one thousand to two thousand five hundred
dollars.
These are made in every style in clusters
beautifully disposed, the brillants set so as to
flash out their varied hues with every motion
of the wearer. Some again are formed to
represent branch, with buds and leaves, on
which the brilliants sparkle, like the glancing
rays of the sun on the dimpled surface of
stream. brooch, which is perhaps the most
costly thing of the kind that will be worn at
the ball. and which is valued at $4,000, will at
tract large share of attention. In the centre
is gorgeous oriental opal, a little over an inch
in diameter, surrounded by two circles of bril-
, liants, which are in striking contrast with the
chameleon stone. Of necklaces the sale WAS
no less extensive, and as we have said, they
were of the most costly description, Those
made of pearls and diamonds are in great de-
mand, and they are splendid specimens of
jewtlry.
In the establishment of Ball, Black & Co.,
we saw diamond set worth $4,000, which
was deservedly the cynosure of wondering
eyes.