POSY EAR-RINGS

Evening Star, Issue 23373, 16 September 1939, Page 20

POSY EAR-RINGS

LATEST JEWEL MODE Earrings, clips, and bracelets are designed to imitate the popular Victorian posy, says a writer in a London paper. One attractive piece shows a dozen lovely sapphires , clustered into flower shapes, with here and there, a tiny ruby, and surrounded by diamond leaves. This ornament can be worn as a brooch, separated into a pair of clips, or mounted on a platinum manacle ” bracelet. _ These platinum foundations are growing more popular every day. Posy earrings are most attractive, and owe their beauty to the delicacy and lightness of setting. Sometimes the posy, mounted on a clip, rests on the lobe of the ear, or it may be suspended by a slender platinum chain. Some of the designs for evening wear ate more like shower bouquets, four or five coloured gems being introduced with dazzling and attractive effect. A new design in drop earrings consists of two < large hoops of brilliants, about the size of a halfpenny, with a couple of carved lovebirds using the base of the hoop as a perch. One bird , is in diamonds, the other in sapphires, and they both have large brilliants for eyes. The hoops swing by a narrow chain from two emerald-cut diamonds, hiding the tiny prong which pierces the ear. Mixtures of white and green gold are fashionable in summer jewellery, made into large brooches,, lockets and wide manacle bracelets that can be worn on the beach and for the afternoon, as well as in the evening. One gold clip brooch in the form of a water lily has petals of fine white gold and leaves in green gold with the veins picked out in a lighter shade of the metal. When the brooch is divided the lily forms one clip, leaves, and a tiny bud the other. An invisible hook at the top enables the brooch to be attached to a gold chain and worn pendant fashion.