SIMPLICITY OF JEWELLERY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 239, 2 July 1908, Page 5

SIMPLICITY OF JEWELLERY.

_ With a studied simplicity of-dress cornea similar care in the matter : of jewellery, and this winter fewer ornaments than ever before are worn out of doors (says a Melbourne paper). 'At night,/with full dress, tho conditions afo otherwise, for then women, who are lucky enough to possess good and artistically set stones can display them to the fullest advantago. But tho cheaper kind of trinket is not nearly so evident as it ' was some time back. Then the fashion permitted the wearing of a necklace of turqoise,a trixor of amethyst, or any other inexpensive stone, on any gown, no matter what the colour; but to-day tho best-dressed girls are more attentive to detail. For example, a is considered smarter to wear a string of ohcap beads which match or harmonise with tho gown, rather than a £10 chain of turquoises which introduces an inappropriate note of colour. The brooch, merely. as an ornament, js somewhat out of favour, unless it is unique and uncommon. In any case,' tlio bar of gold, set with a jumbled design of pearls and coloured stones, is quito dead. Noiv. if a broach is worn at all, it is something light and suitable fo>- fastening fine lace, and tho rather largo circle of almost invisible gold, set with Australian tourma-. lines or diiferontly-coloured sapphires, is a favourite gift to bridesmaids. Tho button brooch of turquoises is an inexpensive fancy of the moment that looks very pretty amidst a mass of lace, and it is the revival of an early Victorian idea, for many an old-fash-ioncd jewel-case is' still the receptacle of a brooch with a closely-set turqoise, centre, and the button brooch of the hour, is similar to that centre.