Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-01-29
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Fashions In Jewelry.

Fashions In Jewelry.
Very simple jewelry Is now worn
The diamond earrings and gold neck.
laces seen in street cars and with walk.
ing dresses during the shoddy period
are fast disappearing with the return 10
simple dressing. The absence of al
jewelry in the day time is the rule with
many ladies of taste, while others have
abandoned all merely ornamental pieces
with street costumes, reserving their
gems for evening and full-dress toilettes,
where display is more appropriate.
The useful articles that are almost
necessary to complete lady's dress are
the brooch, sleeve-buttons. and very
modest watch chain, and when any
fanciful piece is now added to these, it
is not the locket or pendant lately IN
favor, but some curious bracelet, not n
bangle, but n slender band, or else n
serpentine gold braid that Is twined
around the wriet to keep the long glove
smooth, or perhaps IL is thrust higher
up the arm out OF sight, and worn as n
token or talisman.
shape, long and slender, with strong
pin, and is known as the lace pin, be-
cause of the prevailing fashion of wear
ing lace on the throat and bust. This
style is used for diamonds and pearls.
rs well as for the simple gold or silver
brooches worn in the morning. For
diamonds there is an Etruscan gold
band, or, better still, n frame In which
the pendent diamonds swing. This is
the popular design for diamond brooch,
but more rare ones represent a long
spray offlowers with the foliage of in
crusted diamonds, and ruby in the
center. il wild rose, or else rose-buds of
pearls of different colors, such rs the
pink pearl, the yellow. like n tea-rose,
or the pear-shaped white pearl. Rich
colored stones, such rs the ruby, sap
phire, or emerald, are now combined
with diamonds. Sometimes there is n
massive bar of gold with n single dia-
mond sunk in the center; this makes
an elegant and durable brooch. Stones
are mounted in more solid work than
formerly, and diamonds look especially
well when set in silver. What is called
the gypsy setting, where the diamond il
imbedded in the gold. is more fashion,
able than the knife-edge setting that
merely caught the stones. Colored
stones, such rs rubics, the moon stone.
cat's-eycs or sapphires, are mounted in
this way. and are eh cdbOchOn, that is,
merely polished on the upper surface
without being cut in facets rs diamonds
are. AS n rival to the straight "lace
pin." those of crescent shape are per-
haps most liked. When diamonds are
the jewels used, they are either massed
in silver or imbedded in gold. Next
in favor are the colored pearls swing.
ing from an Etruscan gold bar. Some
times the pearls are shaded from black,
through gray and silver, to white.
sometimes they are all cream-color. or
else all pink. A novelty is n massive
knot Of yellow gold with n swinging
horseshoe of precious stones. The
plain gold lace pins are not nearly so
large as those of last season. and are
best liked when very light and slender
and in some artistic design. A long
round bar with pine cone at each end
is pretty brooch. Mt IS. A favorite
pattern Is geranium leaves of pale
green-tinted gold; the Japanese and
the Cesnola patterns are quaint and
tasteful.
Sleeve-buttons are quite large, and
the square patterns so muchworn by gen.
tlemen are also in favor for ladies. The
linked buttons now preferred have a
gold bar to pass through one button
hole, and an ornamental button through
the other. Sets of gold jewelry are sell
dom sold nowadays, rs it is the Gus
tom to buy different and fanciful pieces
hence the prices are much less than fer
merly, and the set of lace pin and tiny
earrings is sold for 800 up to $40 or
$50. If lady insists upon wearing
gold earrings, she is advised that the
smallest ones are the most stylish, rep
resenting tiny daisy, or n clover leaf,
or a pine cone resting against the lobe
of the ear, and costing from SO so to IS
for more expensive ones are pendent
balls of Etruscan gold, for 81 50. or else
the ball is studded with turauoises or
pearls, for sl4 so to $ls. To conceal
solitaire diamond earrings for safe
keeping when ladies wear them in the
daytime are balls of gold that clasp
around tie diamonds, incasing sthem
entirely.
As we have said, the one fanciful piece
of .iewelry now worn IS the bracelet,
and some ladies 90 so far as to wear IL
instead Of the linen cuff or other lingerie
at the wrist, which 1t can never replace.
For this purpose the serpent bracelet is
used, rs Il Is flexible, and may be made
TO clasp any part Of the arm and remain
stationary. The wide gold bands are
abandoned for dress, and instead is a
very thin light band of gold, with an
ornamental medallion. or spray, or
horseshoe of diamonds or colored stones,
on top of the arm. Still another fanci-
ful piece of jewelry is the gypsy ring
asmassive gold finger-ring, with a dia-
mond, or sapphire, or ruby, or perhaps
all three, set deep in the gold, showing
only the surface of the stone. The
necklaces of gold are in Eastern designs.
made up OF swinging pendants, but
when a jeweled locket or single valu-
able pendent is worn, IL is attached to
n very light slender chain. which may
be partly platinum or it may be all
gold. Watch chains for ladies are like
the short bar chains worn by gentle
men, or else they are chatelaines sus-
pended from pin on one side.
Large carbuncles are revived, and are