London Jewellers Say Rubies and Emeralds will be Popular This season will usher in one startling novelty in the sway of Jewel fashions. The ruby, after years of neglect, enters into its kingdom again. "In fact, it will have only one rival in popularity the emerald, This is to be a year of coloured jewels. Except as ai junets, both pearls and diamonds at a discount; though both emeralds and rubies are now to be strung like pearls.
"The ruby, of course," says famous London jeweller, "has always been, in itself, one of the Toveliest of stones. It came to be considered not quite good taste, chiefly for two reasons: Whereas everybody can wear pearls, and most women look well in diamonds, Fubles are not everybody's jewels—particularly in numbers, One may very well 'A certain breeding, good ringe, and, above all, a white I bre necessary to carry rubies off. [As rings, they look awful on any tut the whitest and slimmest hands. 'Then-—again unlike the white stones they do not "go! with everything. You have to dress for them. And a few of the wrens people had only' to start wearing rubies wrongly to. turn fashion dead against then Now, as I say, they have returned to favour. And the most popular pieces of jewellery in which they Faure are necklaces and bracelets."
Rubies with Emeralds both they are to be very frequently used in combination with emeralds! (A still more astonishing. departure from the well-trodden paths of jewel propriety.)
To avoid a clash of colours, pearls are extensively used in the neck-Taces to separate the rows of rubies from the rows of emeralds.
For those who Go not, even #0, like 2 combination of colours in their jewellers, the rage is for emerald and. pearl nectlaces—or ruby and pearl ones.
"Even if it is only a question of tone emerald, or one ruby every 50 any pearls," the jeweller added, it is @ great improvement. The coloured stone sets off the pearls to great advantage, and avoids insipidit Now such a combination of precious materials—most especially in neeklaces—offered ore obvious problem to the jewellery designer. Di mands, rubies, and emerald—In fect, all hard stones—have habitually' been set, hitherto, in metal, either gold or platinum. For flexible wear, like necklaces, each atone so eet was linked to the next. In combination with pearls, which, for perfect
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