The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-05
Wedding Bands Have Significance All
Their Own, According to the
Jewellers WHO are Style
Experts.
EVOLUTION INTERESTING
Plain Gold Band Said to Signify Fet-
ters and Bondage, so Modern
Bride Has Decorated
Ring.

ring? According to your wedding
ring" may be different sort of an
adding machine than you've ever
fused before in computing your years
4 of marriage, but it is fairly accurate
one at that.
For styles change in wedding rings
as they do in any form of jewelry or
! in clothes or customs, and the little
bride of today and the one of twenty
years ago are easily distinguished by
their marriage ring, if there were no
other differentiating qualities of age
and the like.
J For many years the plain, undeco-
, rated band Of gold has served as the
insignia of marriage. But there is a
growing distaste for these, which
seem to be associated with the old
ideas of bondage and the letters of
ownership.
/! The women of today demand some
thing less severe and more symbolic.
The truly modern wedding ring re-
fleets the symbol associated with the
! wearer as well as the personal senti-
/ ment in keeping with the occasion
itself The brides Of today have es.
| tablished their own standards OF the
| wedding ring" not only Of today,
but of tomorrow.
The jeweler who has been in bust
ness for the past twenty years recog-
nizes at least five distinct styles in
the wedding rings during that time
Earlier and up to 1900, the band ring,
either flat or oval and in extreme
widths. was the very best thing. Be
fore this time the flat band highly
engraved, was the ring of the times.
Tiffany Comes Next.
From the wide bands Of 1900 the
medium width Tiffany band came
into being ten or twelve years later.
The width of these rings gradually
decreased until their younger sisters
were known as "hoop Tiffaries,' I'M
usually dainty and sensible and much
in vogue until short time ago. The
hoop Tiffanies were usually made up
in eighteen or twenty-five karet gold.
The flat, wide band rings were made
M in ten, fourteen or eighteen karet
gold
Tho More Ornate Ring.
And the wedding ring Of today? 1t
is a narrow, a very narrow, engraved
band, made up either in white, yell
low or green gold, and sometimes
platinum. The designs on the band
run clear around it and are either
floral or conventional in pattern.
The green and white gold are espe-
cially popular now and have been in
troduced to correspond with the
| white and green gold mountings on
| the engagement rings which the we'd
ding rings are to be worn with.
The designs on the modern we'd
| ding rings deserve special mention
| Perhaps most people are not even
aware Of the fact that there are
| rings especially desiened f"- brides
of the different months. There are
rings engraved for the June bride
, and there are those designed particu-
! larry for the September bride. The
| holly wreath is the emblem used in
rings for the December bride, but
! there is deeper significance at
| tached to the holly wreath than the
| Yuletide season. In olden days 1t
was the symbol of domestic happi-
ness. The iris used in engravings
| for rings, with its association of
spring and early blossom, is espe-
! cially adapted and extensively used
! for April and May weddings. On &C
| count of it's seasonable significance,
June and July brides are partial to
the wild rose design in engraving.
which expresses the sentiment of
modesty. Summer brides also look
upon the laurel wreath as fitting
decoration for wedding rings. The
laurel wreath has long been consld-
cred the symbol of and emblem OF
| honor and fidelity.