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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 251, 14 June 1932, Page 7

MODERN JEWELLERY Modern jewellery is in keeping with the times — simplicity is the aim of the modern craftsman. Anything ornate or ostentatious is ruled out as in bad taste (writes a Londoner). So fine are modern jewel settings that they are almost invisible. It is the jewel that is of paramount importance and the setting as inconspicuous as possible. Jewels, for instance, look as if they were actually fixed on the finger and the links joining the stones of necklaces are so fine that the stones appear to be just hanging in space! Platinum settings are of such fineness tHat they can be worked to a remarkable degree, and yet because of this meal's physical properties it is absolutely safe as a setting. There was a time when platinum was too expensive for all but the wealthy, but the price has been falling and it is now cheaper than it has ever been. Some women are bringing out their old jewellery, in many cases made hideous by the heaviness and clumsineSs of Victorian settings, and are having the stoneS reset in modern style. In this way out-of-date jewel cases bave become the pleasure and pride of owriers at comparatiyely small cOst.