Silver Jewellery.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 189, 29 January 1887, Page 2

Silver Jewellery.

" Silvkr jewellery promises to be very popular with the ladies this winter," said a Fultan-streefc jeweller to an " Eagle " reporter. " For some years silver has not been much worn, but I'm glad to see it coming in faehion again. The principal articles worn will be bracelets, brooche3 and earrings. These are made up in all kinds of plain and ornamental silver. The chafed bracelet ia just now all the rage. Until recently many ladies thought that silver looked cheap, and would wear no jewellery made of that metal. Everybody, or that is every one who can afford it, wears diamonds. These atones are beautiful, to be sure, but then one gets tired of them when they are seen on their servants. And then many wealthy people think'it shoddy to wear diamonds. Jewellery of that description is well enough for theatrical people, or a gentleman may wear a single atone, bnt when it comes to distrib uting three or four diamonds about one's person it looks as though there was an attempt at display. Silver jewellery will, I think, in a measure answer all the purposes of gold. A diamond or a sapphire looks, in my opinion, as well in a silver setting a» it would in a gold one." • " Will silver bangles ever be popular again ?" was asked. "I hardly think so. The, bangle craze was overdone some years ago. The craze was born in Pennsylvania in 1576. It reached New York one year later, and has continued ever since. Within the past two years one bangle is not engraved, as against fifty-five years ago. Ten cent, fifty cent, and $1 silver pieces, and $1, $2, $10 and $20 gold pieces are used for the making of bangles. Oh ! yes, I have often engraved §20 gold pieces tor ladies, but they are nob worn on a bracelet. They are usually worn around the neck, tied with ribbon. While silver jewellery is not very profitable to the jeweller, I'm glad it's coming into fashion again. "

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