The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-01-01
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Fashions I'm Ieyvelry.


simple dressing. The absence of all
jew elry 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 q 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
bangle, but slender band, or else a
serpentine gold braid that is twined
around the wrist to keep the long glove
smooth, or perhaps it is thrust higher
up the arm out of sight, and worn as
token or a talisman.
The favorite brooch is the useful
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 fol- the simple gold or silver
brooches worn in the morning. For
diamonds there is an Etruscan gold
band, or, better still, frame in which
the pendent diamonds swing. This is
the popular design for diamond brooch,
but more rare ones represent a long
spray of flowers with the foliage of in
crusted diamonds, and p ruby in the
center of wild rose, OF else rose-buds of
pearls of different colors, such as the
pink pearl, the yellow, like n tea-rose,
or the pear r-shaped white pearl. Rich
colored stones, such as the ruby, sap
phire, or emerald, are now combined
al. .ats ,1.
massive bar of gold with 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 is
imbedded in the gold, is more fashion
able than the knife-edge setting that
merely caught the stones. COlored
stones, such as rubies, the moon stone,
cat's-eyes or sapphires, are mounted in
this way, and are en- cdbochOR, that is,
merely polished on the upper surface
without being cut in facets as diamonds
are. As 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 a massive
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 a pretty brooch, at S5. A favorite
pattern is geranium leaves of pale
tinted gold; the Japanese a. !
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, as it is the GUS
tom to buy different and fanciful pieces
hence the prices are much less than for.
merly, and the set Of lacs pin AND Il tiny ny
$50. If lady insists upon wearing
gold earrings, she is advised that the
smallest ones are the most stylish, rep
resenting tiny daisy, or a clover leaf
or pine cone resting against the lobe
of the ear, and costing from SO 80 to S.
for more expensive ones are pendent
balls of Etruscan gold, for 81 SO, or else
the ball is studded with turquoises or
pearls, for Sl4 so to SlS. To conceal
solitaire diamond earrings for safe.
keeping when ladies wear them in the
daytime are balls of gold that clasp
around the diamonds, incasing them
entirely.
AS we have said, the one fanciful piece
of iewelrv now worn Is the bracelet
and some ladies go so far as to wear il
instead of the linen cuff or other lingerie
at the wrist, which it can never replace
For this purpose the serpent bracelet is
used, rs it 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 q
very thin light band of gold, with an
ornamental medallion. or spray, ol
horseshoe of diamonds or colored stones
on top of the arm. Still another fanci
full piece of jewelry is the gypsy ring
a massive gold tinger-ring, with n dia
mond, or sapphire, or ruby, or perhaps
| an iHlbt, oCp uccp III lilc Sol0, SnON III
only the surface of the stone. The
necklaces Of gold are in Eastern designs
made up of swinging pendants. bu
when 4 ieweled locket or single valu
able pendent is worn, it is attached to
Il very light slender chain, which may
be partly platinum or it may bs al
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 ar,
with garnets coming to be the fashion
able stones. The garnets are not tht
small Bohemian clusters, but single
large stones, and, like the carbuncles
they are mounted with very little golt
visible. Silver jewelry is the most in
expensive of tasteful styles. a quain
brooch costing SO only. An eXtrava
CANT novelty is the use of gold or silve
pins for the toilette, just as ordinar,
pins are now used; those of silver il
various sizes cost from fifteen cents tC
seventy-fve cents each, according tc
size; gold pins, some of which have
pearl heads, cost 81 10 Sc each.--Har
per'S Bazdr.
Bridal Costumes OF Fernando Po.
As with us, the Fernando Po bride il
clad in white-not the gauEy, fowin:
robe, However, but plastering of earth,
paste resembling plaster of paris. Sh
wears bridal veil, too, composed O
tiny white Shells strung together, an