The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-14
FASHION TURNS
TO The TURQUOISE
There is Nothing More Charming
Than the Gem That Inspires
Acstheticism.
A NEW DEPARTURE IN DRESS
MAKING.
Great Stores VIII Have Genuine Ar
lists to Design the Costumes of
the Elect-Common Sense Cloth
ing Suddenly Becomes Stylish.

By far the oldest feature of the
season is the fact that fashion and
economy are swinging down the prom
enades hand in hand. It is long years
since anything OF this sort has come to
pass and matron and maid are filled
with rejoicing that the unexpected has
really happened. Strangely enough, ii
is one of the most modest of precious
stones that has brought the truth to
light, and the turquoise promises to be
hereafter a blessed memory, although
ever present.
The jewelers. will tell those who in
quire that the turquoise is the COM
ing gem. Whoever cares to saunter
about the haunts of fashion will see
for himself that the gem is not COM
ing, but here. Its advance in favor
has been as rapid as it was unlocked
for In fact, the turquoise has been in
the background for some time, and we
have all thought it impOlitic to wear
even the most charming specimens OF
the milky-blue stone, unless everybody
knew that we had plenty OF money.
Otherwise we would either be placed IN
the list of the poverty stricken, or in the
category of those who, not knowing
what to wear, make a guess and trust
to good fortune that they may be right.
There are those who so so far as to
say that the sounding OF the popularity
OF the turquoise is really the death
inen of the diamond disguised. Long
months ago the opal gained such prom
inence that there were plenty OF pre-
dictions to the effect that at last, de
spite the terrors of superstition, the
diamond had found a genuine rival
And now comes the turquoise to clinch
the argument, as it were, and change
the whole trend of the market for
precious stones.
Therefore it is that the between sea-
sons talk is largely devoted to gems.
OF course we are all wondering what
we are going to wear next spring. Deep
down in our hearts that is the princi-
pal thing that we are thinking about.
1t is not the way of woman, however.
to talk of what most interests her, SO
the conversation turns to the turquoise
and its beauties. Very beautiful they
are when properly set, surrounded with
brilliants. Small wonder that their
beauty has at last won the recognition
to which it was long ago entitled.
1t seems very queer to think of a
turquoise being made the principal
feature of the fashionable jewelry this
season, diamonds taking second place,
but that is exactly what is going to
happen. Not only that, but that de-
lciously unlucky stone, the opal, will
have to keep a sharp eye TO the fore.
or its popularity is likely to wane. It
seems TO be the case that every prec-
ious stone, like the dog, has its day.
This is certainly the period of time
allotted TO the turquoise.
AS always is the case whenever a
gem achieves the prominence which
popularity gives, it is to be seen in all
sorts of articles that are beautified
with jewels. The pretty bonbon box,
the card receiver, highly ornamented,
the casket wherein the TURQUOISE
rivals repose, glove boxes. pocket
books. and, for the ladies also, cigar
cite cases, are ornamented with the
stone that mak<s you think OF the
Italian sky that Byron tells us is more
beautiful than all else. Just incident
ally, toe, there is no harm in stating
that the turquoise is said to inspire
one to poetry, and as spring is at