PUSH ON CLIP FASTENING

This is the most commonly used fastening due to its convenient comfort and because it is a kind of clasp that nearly everybody feels good with. The back part can be closed simply by pressing it together with the front part, either with a butterfly or screw design. The most secure is the screw, however, it is usually only found in children’s earrings. The butterfly fastening is the most common; it has a small hole that fits perfectly onto the post of the earring to ensure it does not slip.

In our shop we recommend placing small transparent silicone discs for those with slightly torn or misshaped orifices, these silicone discs are usually referred to as “magic discs”. They prevent the earring from drooping downwards and manage to keep the earring straight and tight to the ear. They really are marvelous.

THE OMEGA FASTENING

This fastening is known for its comfort and security. It is a kind of fastening more often used in heavier or larger sized earrings as it ensures a better hold. Its name comes from a similarity to its form; a letter in the Greek alphabet.

THE HOOK OR HIPPIE FASTENING

The hook fastening can be open or closed, it is very comfortable and easy to wear, and perhaps because of this it is so popular with our clients.

The only drawback is that with the passing of the years our earlobes lose definition, this could result in the earring drooping a little, hence allowing too much of the earlobe to be seen.

The other possible drawback of this kind of fastening, especially if it is an “open hook”, is that the earring could slip out in a rapid movement or become caught in the hair resulting in the loss of an earring. For this reason, I always recommend the use of the silicone caps so that the earring is securely fastened, and we avoid any possible disappointments.

This problem disappears completely in the case of the closed hook. This fastening ensures that the earring will not slip out in a moment of carelessness.

It is true that this fastening doesn’t favor everyone; however, it is very popular throughout the younger generations.

CATALAN FATSENING

The Catalan fastenings are halfway between the hook and push on clip closures. I will display a photograph depicting this kind of fastening below; it is like the push on clip fastenings but with a small lever behind.

CLIP ON FASTENING

This type of fastening is used by women that do not have pierced ears or that have worn or deteriorated earlobes.

Within this type of fastening we can find the normal clip on and the screw clip. The latter is rather difficult to come across, it was used quite a lot in the Sixties and I can also tell you that it is one of the most comfortable fastenings I have ever tried. It is a loose soft clip in which you can adjust the pressure on your earlobe to the strength you want.

Which one is your favorite?

Her undying love for Laurence Oliver was legendary and tumultuous.

She always preferred the theatre to the cinema, but we will never forget her Pug nose and above all her role of Scarlett O’Hara in “gone with the wind”

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His serene character, his ability to go from the elegant gentleman to the old hero and on all his perfect profile, led him to become our icon of this week.

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Her charisma, her cats eyes and ability to embroider the dramatic roles made her one of the biggest stars in Hollywood.

I, personally, prefer her role of bad, very bad in the movie ¨ What happened to Baby Jane?¨, next to her declared enemy Betty Davis.

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His impeccable elegance, originality, grace and rhythmic precision made him the best dancer in the history of Hollywood.

With an amazing technical control and a sense of rhythm, he was able to transform his dances into a living representation of the joy of living.

His eternal and unforgettable couple was Ginger Rogers.

With a resplendent beauty, a sweet smile and a serene elegance,we will always remember her as the eternal lover of Humhrey Bogart in “Casablanca”

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The more sensitive, charming and honest Hollywood seducer.

In his tomb commanded to write as epitaph: “Formal, strong and ugly”

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“Lisner and Company” was established in New York in 1904. At the beginning, the company made its own quality jewellery designs and didn’t brand them. it was just before the explosion of the Second Worl War when Lisner became Else Schiaparelli’s official agent in the US, importing and selling the French designer’s pieces. He also had a license to produce, sell and distribute his jewellery and accessories in the US.

In the Thirties the Company Whiting and Davies, famous for their metal mesh bags, produced a few pieces for the brand.

However, Lisner’s great peak would arrive in the Fifties. The jeweller, who produced designs in those years, became very popular for his colour combinations, attractive designs and, above all, his low prices.

The base to these pieces was lucite or plexiglas, a material developed by Dupont in 1937. An acryllic plastic that could be coloured and molded.

The Chairman of the company at the time was V. Ganz, a creative genius with a fashion instinct. He was sufficiently canny to develop the clean and commercial style that keeps Lisner’s pieces as fresh as they were in the moment they were created.

The designs were placed on chrome bases or bathed in silver and, from the Sixties onwards, in “blackjapanned metal” (which is a type of black lacquered metal). This pieces on their black bases were popular in their day and very sought-after today.

In the late Fifties early Sixties Lisner introduced a new range, branded “Richelieu”, which was better quality and more expensive. The pieces are rarer to find nowadays and if they’re in good condition the prices can be rather high.

The price of Lisner’s designs have started to rise recently, due to the fact that pieces from other designers of the period are sky high. In the case that the prices of pieces made by highly premiered designers go up, the more affordable pieces, such as Lisner’s, grow in demand. As a consequence the branded and well designed pieces are called on to rise in value.

The company used the brand “LISNER” in capital letters for their own pieces for this first time in 1935. From 1959 they used “LISNER” in capital letters with an elongated “L”. Nevertheless the buyers should have in mind that the molds and stamps were reused afterwards, consequently the brand isn’t a reliable indicator of the date of the piece.

The company’s production finished in 1979.

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The most seductive at her time, the more brazen and the great diva of Spanish cinema.

Sara Montiel… “the Queen of the Cuplé”!

She is our icon of this week. Today, she is our protagonist.

Three comedies: “Pillow Talk” , “Lover Come Back” and  Send Me No Flowers”, all of them performed together with Rock Hudson and in which she played an innocent woman, warm, a bit childish… but with a touch of glamour.

A series of comedies that frame her career and that we will always remember.

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