FANCY JEWELLERY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 March 1940, Page 8

FANCY JEWELLERY

TRENDS BASED ON ROMANCE. Crackled beads and shell are two of the chief mediums employed in designing the newest fancy jewellery. The beads are worked up into marvellous representations of the fruit of the land, and the shells suggest the romance, of the sea. Pastel tints are the leading colour scheme for fancy jewellery, and the ivories and pale pinks of the shell lend themselves to most charming effects, in which a deeper note is struck by the introduction of seaweed colouring. Spherical crackled beads with triangular green touches in the same way form miniature bunches of grapes, while other groups in different colours suggest buds and berries. Sets of a necklet and a bracelet are the rage at the moment. Novelty earrings are also designed of the same original materials. For evening wear pearls are still being widely featured. The fashionable necklets follow two types —single strings of pearls caught up in a pastel slide, or strands of pearls twisted round each other to form a cord, not unlike a slender rope in appearance. In addition to plain pearl necklets, the pastel tendency is seen in evening jewellery. But in this case the beads and shells have given place to enamel work, often with fine gold filigree. Heavy Edwardian bracelets arc included in many of the collections, but the general trend is toward novelties rather than the revival of the older styles in jewellery, the feeling being that fancy jewellery should appeal on the strength of its novel beauty, not on account of its intrinsic value.