Many of history’s influential women have favored pearls and pearl jewelry over jewels made with other gems. These women include Elizabeth I of England, who was said to have been buried in a dress and shoes sewn to the inch with pearls; Coco Chanel, who famously wore strings of opera-length pearls with whatever outfit she had on; Jacquelyn Kennedy Onassis, Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana and Elizabeth Taylor.
Why is it that the pearl is placed so highly in value among gemstones, and why do so many women favor it so? Diana Vreeland, the editor-in-chief of Vogue in the sixties and herself a fashion institution in her own right, captured it in one statement: Nothing gives the luxury of pearls.
How Pearls Come About
The pearl holds the distinction of being the only organic gemstone in the world. It is organic in the sense that it is produced by an animal. Bivalve mollusks like oysters and abalones have the ability to produce pearls.
The pearl is actually the result of how such mollusks deal with irritants. When a foreign body finds its way into the mollusks shell, the mollusk quickly coats this foreign body with nacre. The process goes on and...
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