FASHIONS IN WEDDING RINGS

Dunstan Times, Issue 2486, 21 June 1909, Page 8

FASHIONS IN WEDDING RINGS

There are fashions in wedding rings just as there are in everything we use or wear. The ring of fifty years ago is easily to be distinguished from that of twenty-five, for, apart altogether from the fact that it has probably worn thin, it is of a different shape and thickness. The ring of fifty years ago was thin and flat in shape, so much so that sometimes it wore away to a mere thread, and ladies had their rings renewed. When a feeling of romance prevented the entire renewal of this pledge, says the Daily Telegraph, the ring was set in two narrow ropes of gold, and worn in that form. Wedding rings are often used as souvenirs, and when they are in this thin and worn condition the edging of gold makes thenr look like a guard or fancy ring. Twentyfive years ago the fashionable wedding ring was solid and heavy. It was not found to be comfortable, and it was very much in the way when other thick and handsome rings were worn. In addition to discomfort, the fact was that the clumsy wedding-ring rubbed against others and wore them down. The bride of the past few years has been selecting her marriage symbol in a modified form, until to-day the rings which are principally favored, particularly by wearers of thick jewelled rings, is actually a* narrow ring, thick right through and in shape what is known to those in the trade as oval. This fits the finger so comfortably that other rings are in no way made to incommode the wearer.