"Barbaric” Jewels.
The wearing of barbaric jewels (writer "A Society Butterfly") is the current craze in Ix>n<>on. Men as well as women have adopted this newest freak of fashion. There are signs of a ‘•slump" in the profits of the lapidary, so many uncut and unpolished stones being now used for ornaments and jewelled trifles. Uncut turquoises are jM-rhaps first favourites— big, weird jtnnps of blue stone, of uneven shape and delieate veinings of colour. These generally are combined with curiously wrought gold, and form long neck chains and such like. Mrs Alfred Harinsworth lias a beautiful muff chain of this description, and Lady Charles Beresford also wears many notable ornaments formed of the uncut turquoise. Lady Evelyn llelyHutchinson has a short necklace made lifter tilis style', but hers is of Indian workmanship, and has small gold beads between each piece of turquoise.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVI, Issue II, 12 January 1901, Page 60
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143"Barbaric” Jewels. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVI, Issue II, 12 January 1901, Page 60
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