HEAVY VICTORIAN JEWELLERY BACK IN FASHION AGAIN

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 11, 28 January 1937, Page 15

HEAVY VICTORIAN JEWELLERY BACK IN FASHION AGAIN

Heavy Victorian jewellery is returning to fashion this year, states an English fashion writer. Women are choosing flat, fiexible necklaces in gold and silver, as heavy and as simple a-s possible, fitting close to the base of the neck. Bracelets and long ear-rings to match look as becoming with the severe lines of modern dress as with our grandmother's styles. Georgian silver shilling and twOshilling pieees are in much demand for buttons, often made up to show the ( "head" and "tail" alternately. A particularly lovely set of jewelled buttons seen recently at a New Oxford Street antique jeweller's was made of opal paste in the shape of flowers. Hebrew silver amulets, from 200 to 400 years old, are being increasingly used as belt buckles. Also in favour are enormous rings made of semi-pre-cious stones, Some are as much as l£in. in length and are made of amethyst, turquoise, topaz;, malachite, of agate, coral, garnet, chrysoprase, and quartz. Among thq rarest larg© rings are Indian mirror rings, in which nautch girls are able to watch themselves while they are dancing. Some of them are 2Jin. in diameter. A particularly valuable specimen seen yesterday consists of a central mirror surrounded with flat diamonds and emeralds, the whole backed with Jaipur enamel. The taste of the Royal Family for old jewellery is well known, but it is perhaps not generally known that the Princess Royal collects jewelled owls and miniatures of St. George, while the Duk© of Gloucester has a large tollection of miniature carved Japanese and Chines© ivory figures.