ANSWER: MOLDED PLASTIC LEAVES
Are these Trifari earrings considered fruit salad?
Lilly Vittetow
Are these Trifari earrings considered fruit salad?
Lilly Vittetow
"Those are neat earrings Lilly, but not what I would consider to be fruit salad. I'll try to find a pic of fruit salad to show you." --Jan Gaughan, 06/25/08
"I know about the "fruit" ones but thought I had heard/seen somewhere that if they had molded leaves they were also considered fruit salad. Guess maybe mine are just salads, lol." --Lilly Vittetow, 06/25/08
"I've read the same thing...I think the term is also loosely used to descibe any molded glass/plastic pieces...Enchanted Learning's definition is...""Fruit Salad" jewelry is costume jewelry that is set with colorful, molded stones. The stones are glass or plastic, and can be transparent or translucent."" --Lenae, 06/25/08
"I think the "fruit" or leaves must be simulating precious gems (ruby, sapphire, emerald, or in looser instances moonstone and aquamarine) and they need to be glass to qualify. The original CJ pieces were simulating fine jewelry by Cartier." --Tracy Green, 06/25/08
"I think the term fruit salad has been so misused by sellers trying to catch the search engines that its become almost meaningless. A fruit salad purist would say your leaves are not fruit salad. They would say that fruit salad has to be fruit shape and glass. Also, they need to be emerald, sapphire and/or ruby colored. I'm not that much of a purist, since I use it for any color. But I try to stick with the fruit and the glass.
Are your leaves glass or plastic?" --Georjean West, 06/25/08
"Okay, I get the "fruit" part of it, but dis-agree with the gem colors part. I have this necklace by Trifari that Robin stated is fruit salad and rare colors - these are glass..." --Lilly Vittetow, 06/25/08
"We've had this discussion many times on JC regarding fruit salad stones. I have followed Cartier jewelry who were the originators of "tutti frutti" or what later became in costume jewelry the term "fruit salad" jewelry by purchasing these stones already carved from India in the
shapes of fruits, berries, flowers and leaves and setting them into jewels." --Robin Deutsch, 06/26/08
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