Fashions in Ear-rings.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIV, Issue 10, 9 March 1910, Page 69

Fashions in Ear-rings.

’""'With the coming of closely-twisted toques that resemble turbans, and. even With hair framing the face and finished With ornaments in a style that suggests •n Oriental head-dress, the taste for earrings was certain to develop. Thus the last designs in earrings are of the early, (Victorian days, when gems were set in gold heavily wrought after the Eastern fashion. Now is the time to bring out

all sorts of old designs, and to have them remodelled where they are'too elaborate. Sometimes one pair of early Victorian pendant earrings will design beautifully into two. Many workers in precious stones and metals take keen pleasure in adapting old designs, and are probably rejoicing that the necessity no longer exists for constructing brooches and pendants. They may now leave the ear decoration in its original form to some extent to be used for its original purpose.

A favourite mode of early Victorian days was a bar from which five small pendants fell, and something of this kind has been brought out once more, with three pendants of unequal length. Mere

studs of diamond, pearl, or gold are very effective, and the touch of colour afforded by a pair of ruby, emerald, peridot, or turquoise earrings is very good with velvet or dark fur. Fortunately for many women who appreciate charming designs, these jewelled ornaments are reproduced in forms so moderate in price that a pair of tasteful and sparkling earrings may be secured for quite a modest outlay.