Antique jewelry

The first antique jewelry items were made from improved tools. And usually they represented figures of animals and birds. Only later, Greeks began to make jewelry of metal.

A beautiful and legal opportunity to decorate yourself with jewelry was only for visiting the theater, wedding, holiday and feast.

The jewelry art of Greece was under the great influence of Egypt and Assyria masters’ works. Their favorite method was the use filigree with inclusions of glass, colored or small pearls. This technique allowed them to create an openwork pattern of the finest threads of gold and metal alloys.

Pearls were not only particularly common in Greece. In archaic and classical times, ​ Greeks wore jewelry made of precious metals without inserts of stones and minerals. Only from the end of the IV century jewelers started to use semiprecious and precious stones.

Virtually all the jewelry items in Greece were made of precious metals – gold and silver with precious stones and ivory incrustations. Greeks were very careful about such things and made even special duplicates of clay or bronze. To create samples of antique jewelry, they used special containers of a certain shape and pattern to pour metal there.

The earliest works of Greek jewelers were precious products depicting gods.

Necklaces were in a high demand. And, first of all, necklaces made from chains, beads and pendants that repeat the shape of amphoras or animals.

Intricate earrings also resembled images of the gods. Greek earrings, as a rule, consisted of two elements: a disk with the smallest pattern and inlay with hanging suspensions.

Women of ancient Greece had at their disposal the numerous hair jewelry.

There were masterfully executed hairpins with precious stones, diadems (that are popular now), as well as solemn wedding crowns made with golden leaflets and winged goddess in the middle.

Greek women tried to emphasize elegance of their hands with the help of bracelets. They wore them not so much on the wrist, but on the shoulder. Some refined ladies also decorated their ankles with bracelets. Bracelets could appear as pearl threads or a weave of wires with images of animals or fantastic creatures. In a one word, ancient Greek women’s jewelry was made by skilled craftsmen with a good imagination.

The history of Italian antique jewelry begins in the period of the Etruscan civilization.

Among the precious stones, the most expensive and superior in the rarity and beauty, many ancient authors used sea pearls. Overflowing in the sun and translucent to the light, pearls have long been a luxury item for the Greeks and for the Romans. The very high cost of this material was due to its beauty and to its complexity. Consequently, women give preference to such jewelry because of it unusual color and delicate pearly luster. Therefore, lots of beautiful legends have connect with this creation of nature. According to them pearls is a moonlight petrified in the water – tears drops of angels or water from the hair of the goddess Aphrodite.

These were not only simple ones: pearls were included in complex antique jewelry in combination with gold and colored stones, most often with Esmeraldas. For the production of jewelry, jewelers used not only metals, but also wood, glass and precious stones. Jewelry became for the Romans one of the main attribute of clothing. Brooches were widely used, and women began to wear pendants with perfume. The symbol of power in ancient Rome was ring, with which people could put stamps.

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Medieval jewelry

When the Romans withdrew from northern and Western Europe under the impact of various warlike tribes, a single Roman style in the manufacture of gold jewelry has disappeared. However, no less spectacular medieval jewelry styles of Saxons, ​ Goths, Franks, Alans were born. ​

Ornaments covered the surface of lots of things. And jewelers could not change elements of ornaments. Interlacing symbolized the spiritual and earthly Path of man. Each image was considered a magical sign. Thus, birds considered heavenly messengers and each of them had its own omen. Pigeon was a symbol of love and spirituality, partridge was cunning, heron means vigilance. The dove was a symbol of prosperity and abundance. Snakes possessed healing power, fish was the embodiment of the Highest Wisdom. And a horse was an emblem of fertility goddesses. Celtic crosses symbolized the union of terrestrial and celestial forces. ​ ​

Jewelry with a secret was quite common and popular in The Middle Ages.

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Most often, they appeared in the form of massive rings, under the “crown” of which ​ ​ a secret casket was hidden. The main purpose of these boxes was hiding powder with poison.

Brooches occupied the central place in the medieval jewelry business.

Along with luxurious large clasps for raincoats, such medieval jewelry items appeared also for women. Like the first ones, they fasten the lapel of the cervical incision. This jewelry item has often reflected the personal attitude of the grantor to his lover. Sometimes Gothic brooches had even love inscriptions and mottos. Woven hands, pierced hearts, flowers, keys and similar motifs occurred in these objects repeatedly..

Rich people could wear long and curled hair. In addition, not only women, but men could decorate their hairstyles with gold headbands. Also women began to wear two braids and curled them over the ears as a “snail.” An ornament in the form of a convex hemisphere or a flap was a special medieval jewelry item for such hairdo. Such adornment was attached to the hoop on the head. Also medieval fashionistas used golden veils to complement such accessories.

During The Middle Ages, there was a whole cult of fake jewelry.

Even owners of expensive necklaces and other jewelry sometimes put on their exact copies, hiding the originals in a secret.

The main material for jewelry decoration of those times was enamel. Rivaling with gems, it gave the same effect to the precious multi-colored surface. The greatest distribution of enamel was in France (especially famous was Limoges enamel) and in Germany. The color of the enamel characterized by a colorful and fresh color scheme. Cold shades of blue, blue, white or green emphasized with a gilded background, covered with a thin engraving. Products of medieval jewelry masters overloaded with brightly convex forms of stones (ruby, emerald, sapphire, pearls). But there appeared also such precious stones as rock crystal, topaz, amethyst and garnet. Both imported and local stones jewelers used manually without changes of its natural shape.

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Victorian jewelry

Styles and movements of the Romantic era fit into the long years of the Queen Victoria reign. Finally, it was famous and great “Victorian era.” Since artistic styles and historical epochs did not have sharp boundaries, they were flowing from one to another. So it is sometimes not so easy to differentiate jewelry items from the same style.

Victorian jewelry are full of greatness and pomposity, sensuality and romanticism. Formation of that period jewelry fashion is in the personality of the queen. Her tastes and ideas are all about the beauty. And even the events of Victoria’s life reflected the jewelry art.

Iron jewelry were typical for those times.

Ball evening Victorian jewelry have got the most beautiful and bright precious stones – emeralds, rubies, sapphires and, of course, diamonds. Soon ball gems got the addition of Australian opals, sapphires from Southeast Asia and notorious diamonds from South Africa. But the craving for pearls remained unchanged. Large pearls were

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collected in necklaces and earrings. Therefore, more fine framed colored gems – for cameos and miniatures.

The tradition of creating mourning jewelry was born back in the seventeenth century. But the real popularization was during the reign of Victoria. She brought them into fashion after the death of her beloved husband Prince Albert. It is noteworthy that Victoria wore a mourning ring in memory of her beloved until her death.

Therefore, Romanticism included mourning bracelets with miniatures. As a result, there were memorable bracelets with a miniature in the center (with the hair of the lovers). Hence, also mourning rings with insets of onyx. There were medallions, brooches and bracelets “with a secret”.

Memorable Victorian jewelry included also different types of black materials. Such as jet, black glass, onyx, black enamel or painted horn. Thus, fashion for the very black color, which has survived to this day, has come.

Traditionally, the mourning jewelry of the Victorian era carried a great semantic load and served three main purposes:

1. Memory of the dear and beloved person; 2. Memento mori – a reminder of the death and frailty of all living things; 3. Symbol of a social status.

All the materials used for the manufacture of funeral Victorian jewelry had a certain significance. So, the white enamel as cover of the medallion meant that the deceased was an unmarried girl or virgin. Pearls could symbolize the loss of the child. Different colors spoke about different stages of mourning. According to strict Victorian jewelry rules, a period of particularly deep sorrow lasting two to three years required all formalities. Mourning medallions, rings and bracelets were the only adornments that people could wear.

The love of Victorians for such things is also due to the fact that in the 19th century mortality at an early age was high enough. Men died in the war. Children died in infancy from malnutrition and disease. Women died during the childbirth. Epidemics of cholera and typhus carried off tens of thousands victims. Death was very common. And the average life expectancy was only 50 years. So the funeral processions on the streets were part of everyday life for the Victorians.

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Hair locks regarded as a symbol of communication with the dead person.

They provided the invisible and constant presence in the world of the living. They also were the reminder of the inevitability of death and of a soon meeting with your loved ones in another, unearthly world. For example, a medallion or a brooch with a lock of hair was a conduit between the living world and the other world for its owner.

Fashion world, besides the traditional European culture, included adornments made of teeth, claws, and other parts of animal bodies. A sort of Victorian jewelry trophies. Most often, heads of birds jewelers used to create earrings. And the teeth of monkeys for necklaces. The queen herself wore a necklace executed from the teeth of a deer that was killed by her husband on the hunt. Each tooth had an engraving with a date of that hunt. That is so strange love for nature of the Queen Victoria. Although here we can also see a perverse worship of the nature gifts.

The parade of neo-styles of the XIX century opened the Neo-Gothic jewelry style.

The Neo-Rococo expressed itself in the fascination of the bourgeoisie with brooches, bouquets and other jewelry of the Rococo era. Neo-Renaissance style fulfilled with voluminous details in the form of sphinxes on the ends of the bracelets, miniature figurines, statues on tiepins and other products with embossed details. The Neo-Greek style (late 1860s) introduced motifs and ornamentation of Greek and Etruscan jewelry items.

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Art Nouveau jewelry

The end of the 19th century summed up Romanticism and Neo-Styling. People were tired of them. The Art Nouveau jewelry style appeared in France and Germany at first. And further it spread almost everywhere – in England, Belgium, Austria, Scandinavia and Russia. Now you can see this style in almost every modern collection.

Emerged in the late 19th-century, Art Nouveau (or its other names – Modern, ​ Tiffany and so on) was processing everything antique in order to create the perfect jewelry item. Jewelers mixed clothing, architecture and accessories in order to create the perfect adornment.

Personal exhibitions of jewelry art appeared during the very Art Nouveau era.

Catalogs of fashion adornments began to be printed in magazines. Museums began to buy jewelry collections. The World Exhibition, held in Paris in 1900, applauded to jewelers as to real art masters.

The basis of the Art Nouveau style was not the value of jewelry, but the artistic taste. If earlier jewelry jewelers made of gold of the highest quality and precious stones of

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the first category such as diamonds, emeralds, rubies, sapphires and pearls, at the turn of the 19th and 20th century’s artists appreciated charms of other materials. Bright colors of opals, tourmaline, chalcedony, moonstone, aquamarine ​ and green pomegranates replaced the formalism of diamonds. ​

The favorite technique of Art Nouveau jewelry was enamel.

For it, jewelry masters invented new possibilities and revived old traditions. This is one of those things that jewelers of the new era have adopted from the Romanticism and Neo-Styles epochs. ​

At first, Art Nouveau jewelry art was full of gothic culture.

It is about predominance of vertical compositions, frequent motif of the lily as a ​ sign of detached refinement, image of a skinny melancholic virgin with closed ​ eyes. Also, Art Nouveau art got features of the Creto-Mycenaean and Etruscan ancient cultures and even a bit of Ancient Egypt style. The ornamental series borrowed elements from Celtic culture and book patterns.

The appearance of female body in jewelry became the most significant innovation of those times. The chaste era of the 19th century simply could not imagine that woman would wear jewelry that would portray another, sensual, seductive and desirable beauty.

Among the jewelry and accessories of Art Nouveau era, necklaces were particularly popular. Necklace with “fringe” (pearl or diamond) ideally suited to the evening dress. Fashion world of that times also included wide “collars” with stones; elegant headbands with a stone on a long rod. Hair could be decorated with exquisite combs made of gold and precious stones.

Plants appeared not only as the blossoming flowers, but also buds, rudiments and withering inflorescences. All the water flowers – primroses, erotic irises, ​ orchids and foxgloves – appeared in fashion adornments. ​

This epoch, like all other epochs, had a summary of its rules, even a few strange and incomprehensible to us today. According to the rules of good tone, diamonds were worn by fashionistas only after 5 PM. Up to 5 PM they put on opaque stones: opal, nephrite, corals and hematite.

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20s jewelry trends

It was a symbol of glamour, contrary to feminism.

Long strands of pearls were extremely popular. And this lovely tendency has remained until now. Wearing these beads with business suits and also putting them over a coat, a cloak, cape or a jacket came from the very 1920s.

Classic pearl stud earrings also have come to us from the 20s jewelry style.

The most important accessory of the 20s were rightly considered hair jewelry items.

It might be simple, but always bright tape bandage, which was complemented with huge and long hanging earrings. Also, such jewelry could be made in the form of the feather of a metallic color, richly decorated with rhinestones. It also might a bandage that covered the forehead a little. At the same time 20s jewelry style has created tiaras with rhinestones and thin sparkling bands. This epoch also gave us a fashion for thin rectangular pins.

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Also, the “Age of Jazz” is associated with massive necklaces and enormous earrings. Wide collar-necklaces with shiny stones, large pendants or a fringe of thin chains will look impressive.

The most striking feature of the “roaring twenties” era, or rather, evening fashion of that time it is, of course, precious stone. And yes, the fashion for cocktail rings appeared just then. Critics talk about the 1920s in the United States, where girls wear such rings to “illegal” cocktail parties.

At the same time, there appeared a separate line in the fashion world, and namely – Art Deco. It was based on cultures of different countries and folks. Center of influence in the jeweler’s art was China. From there came an interest for the main jewel of the Celestial Empire – jadeite. Boucheron and Cartier used in their jewelry ​ ​ many Chinese motifs during the Art Deco era, combining jadeite and coral. Passion for Persia gave jewelers quite exotic combinations of turquoise, lapis lazuli and onyx.

Since 1925, fashion has completely settled jewelry in the style of “Art Deco”, wherein appeared the preponderance combination of geometric shapes, dynamic lines and open colors. Flat bracelets, long, sometimes up to the knee, beads, squares and triangles in brooches replaced the intricate Art Nouveau 20s jewelry. Covered with meandering patterns of plant ornaments, images of butterflies and dragonflies, lizards and chimeric animal jewelry items disappeared.

Huge bracelets in ancient style were almost the main attribute of the 20s fashion.

Women’s jewelry bracelets were made mainly from silver metal. Particularly relevant were huge and bright bracelets as ancient national jewelry: Indian, Turkish, Greek. 20s jewelry style also included bracelets with crystals, chains and thin threads with beads.

Brooches were also one of the most important attributes. And everything was rather strictly there – if the hat had bright colors, the brooch should not be too pretentious. But if the hat had ornaments and patterns – the brooch should be small and preferably geometrical.

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50s jewelry

Among the huge variety of the most unusual for those times earrings there were cuff – beautiful earrings made of crystals that adorn the whole ear.

Adornments made of pearls became the iconic fashion trend of the 50s jewelry.

Following this trend, even standing at the stove woman, adorned herself with such luxurious necklace. Accessories made of pearls used to be both in everyday life and at official events. And even today there are women who adhere to the canons of the 50s jewelry style. They are called the “real” ladies. And no matter how modern designers are perverting on the topic of pearl beads – a classic thread of white pearls is an eternal standard of elegance.

The same can be said about the classic combination of clip-earrings, bracelets and chains. These sets have gained a special popularity in the 50s jewelry style, however, they remain popular till this day. Today, large clips and regular huge earrings become popular no less than in old days. Their choice is great, but still fashionable women prefer large ring-earrings or circular patterns in the form of buttons with inserts made of malachite, crystal or topaz stones.

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Another indispensable attribute of the 50s jewelry is a huge brooch with inserts made of semi precious stones. Now they find their place on the breast or on a lapel of jacket.

Gold chains and decorative brooches were used as a separate jewelry. Christian Dior introduced a rhinestone necklace with pearl streaks of beads. It looked so noble that ladies were relieved of questions about the authenticity of their jewelry.

A clear rule was that woman couldn't leave her house without jewelry.

In order to special occasions, lady’s neck should be adorned with a large piece of jewelry that was chosen according to the belt tone or to the picture on a dress. Women of those times were very conservative on the issue of the right combination of clothes and accessories in image. Perhaps this made the style of the 50’s, and of course the style of the 50s jewelry an impeccable standard of femininity.

The main features of 50s jewelry are large, elegant lines and unusual shapes.

During that period, a high quality jewelry imitation have received an incredible spread, because such custom 50s jewelry was indistinguishable by a sight to the fine jewelry. Due to this, every woman, even if she has a little prosperity, could afford herself to sparkle.

It is impossible to imagine a woman of 50’s fashion without an elegant headscarf tied on her head. It gave to the incredible image a hint of fragility and subtlety.

Designers of 50s jewelry and clothes fashion have presented to contemporary fashion an incredible amount of amazing things. World has taken them, supplemented them with new technologies and presented as a priceless gift to the modern fashion industry. It remains for us only to enjoy and to remember with gratitude feminine, flirty and charming 50s jewelry.

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60s jewelry trends

Despite the dominant in fashion of 50s and 60s unisex, women’s fashion and style trends of that time focused on the reflection of sensuality and sexuality. In general, every girl looked like a princess. Style 60s jewelry is actually something similar to previously bleached style of 50s. But in this new era girls became more sexual and their clothing.

Accessories and 60s jewelry became more comfortable for wearing.

Free and expressive period of solemn processions, it was a so-called youth fashion. 60s fashion is not only the era of hippies. Its Youth fashion awakened ordinary women from the fashion oblivion. Now dressing up beautifully was a desire not only for ladies of high society, but also for representatives of the middle class.

Then earrings in the form of geometric shapes and unusual glasses in an extravagant style began to emerge. Women showed their individuality in unusual combinations already then. Classic demanded new cuts, and fragile models like Twiggy gained a wide popularity. On such girls big 60s jewelry seemed even stranger.

In the 60s, jewelry fashion the best stylish accessory were pearls: pearl earrings, pearl bracelets, pearl necklaces or simple diamond earrings. Girls from not

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particularly well off families could also afford the style for themselves. And all that because pearl 60s jewelry jewelers also made from artificial pearls, and even multi-colored ones.

Among the 60s jewelry in those days girls wore necklaces made of natural materials: amber and coral.

Laconic straight and trapezoid dress models emphasized their avant-garde be large accessories that jewelers made of brightly colored plastic. Romantic and lush long dresses girls complemented with neat jewelry. Bulky bracelets and rings were uncommon for those outfits. Belts for short dress models should be thin and wide for long items. Belts were an essential attribute of 60s fashion.

In the second half of the 60th appearance of fashionistas began to change rapidly. So that appeared synthetic fabrics and plastic adornments.

And what about possible colors of jewelry or drawings and prints? Fashion of 60s jewelry characterizes by rich and vivid colors: red, blue, pink, green, yellow, orange. The most suitable patterns are dots, stripes, abstract patterns, large and small floral motifs.

In 60s, ethnic hippie style became very popular.

Beads and pendants necessarily have to be large. Long, short, made of fabric, metal, plastic or stones. Literally, the whole neck should be hung with beads of different lengths, shapes and colors.

Hippie 60s jewelry is based on the introduction of original ethnic elements.

Boho-style concept also emerged in 60s.

Externally, it looked like a hippie style, but differed from it ideologically. Bohemia appreciated individuality and self-expression, while hippies – democracy and equality.

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70s jewelry trends

This decade combines many style directions: ethnic, classical, romantic, folk, hippie, sports, military, safari, disco, unisex and even punk.

Therefore, the first and almost the most important rule in the fashion jewelry of the 70s is to combine incongruous. Layering is one of the most dangerous trends in the fashion world, and even more in the world of fashion jewelry.

At that time fashion was a mixture of glam rock and disco crazy styles. As well as the abundance of fur, bright colors, exaggerated forms and unrestrained merriment

In absolute honor were necklaces, earrings and bracelets with pearls. This came into fashion of 70s jewelry further from the epoch the 50s. But this decade has not prophesied brevity and elegance. Pearl bracelets were in a great honor. But there was one small nuance – they must have been in a wide variety. So that they could cover at least a half of the glove.

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Jewelry items that uniquely should have been in the box of every fashionista:

1. Puset earrings: made of white or yellow gold with a diamond, silver with transparent semi-precious stones such as topaz or a high-quality bijouterie with transparent crystal. 2. The neutral base earrings in white and (or) yellow metal: classic universal form, may be small rings, squares, triangles, could combine both yellow and white metals. 3. Pendant earrings for cocktail outfits. 4. Delicate pendant on a thin chain length of 40-45 cm: white or yellow metal, ideally – two different chains with interesting pendants. 5. Long chain with a pendant or small decorations, which falls below the chest. 6. Statement necklace: may be made of different materials, natural or artificial, metal, stones, plastics, textiles. 7. Cocktail ring: may have one stone or several stones, may have unusual geometric shape. 8. Neutral ring (or several rings): neat, minimalist, with small stones or completely without them, made of white or yellow gold or even silver metal. 9. Massive metal bracelet. 10. Men’s watch or rough enough minimalist accessory.

Jewelry have been an integral part of any fashionable hairdo, but the most important accessory was the hairpin in the shape of a comb.

Brooches have become one more important and even integral part of the 70s wardrobe.

And usually only 2 types have been allowed there, both large and incredibly even caricatured: the main material can be either pearl or bright and the most glittering stone. These brooches have been quite expensive, so even the most of dedicated fashionista could have only 1 or 2 of such accessories. So it was clanged almost to everything: coats, jackets, dresses and even shoes. Trend to cling brooch to non-traditional places came from the very 70s.

Gypsy style came into fashion with the folk style in the season of 1976/77. This style is characterized by lush jewelry items in the form of chains, beads and coin necklaces (neck adornment, consisting of a chain or cord with crosses and coins).

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80s jewelry trends

80s jewelry items for business style have been extremely mixed. After all, girls combined their suits with big earrings, bright rings and wide bracelets. The main accent was on the everyday working week look.

In those years, there appeared so many fashion trends. Almost all of them are popular right now. Margaret Thatcher affected the development of evening dresses ​ and related jewelry. Yuppie style and corporate style of Princess Diana led to the fact ​ that such manner of dressing has grown into an independent direction in the fashion world.

The most vivid colors and their unexpected combinations appeared in the 80s jewelry fashion: fuchsia, neon green, bright turquoise were combined with each other and with a strict black color.

The different layers of the society successfully used clothing and accessories of famous luxury brands such as Versace, Giorgio Armani, Emporio Armani, Armani ​

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Jeans, Moschino, Chanel, Nike, Adidas, Vivienne Westwood, Yves Saint Laurent, Azzedine Alaia, Salvatore Ferragamo, Jimmy Choo, Manolo Blahnik , Jean Paul Gaultier, Claude Montana and others.

80s jewelry items were mainly plastic.

Bright jewelry with diamonds and gold had become popular as never before. Although 80s jewelry included almost all types of precious metals. Huge hoop earrings, big bracelets and large chains could be made of silver as well. This is exactly what fashion of 80s has absorbed from the 20’s decade. Not everyone loved plastic or too colorful jewelry. A large gold diamond jewelry was a real salvation for those who did not accept cheap plastic of a chewing gum color.

Punk style jewelry has become extremely popular among the different segments of society exactly during the era of the 80s. Accoutrements worn by 80s punks included BDSM fashions; fishnet stockings (sometimes ripped); spike bands and other studded or spiked jewelry; safety pins (in clothes and as body piercings) and silver bracelets.

80s fashion hairstyles were full of bows, ribbons and even flowers.

Brooches of that time were also a popular kind of accessory. And they repeated style and form of plastic and diamond jewelry pieces. Fashionistas usually worn them on the uncommon piece of clothing.

Woman from 80s could be anyone she wants. She has absorbed all the glitter and a jazzy lightness of the 20’s, all the femininity and coquetry of the 50s and gave a rise to an explosive and depressed 90s.

80s sports style also had its own kind of suitable accessories, and sometimes in this sense, it crossed with extravagant Gothic and Punk styles. Bandages and ​ headbands for the hairstyles – that was as mandatory thing as sunglasses and ​ lipsticks for every true fashionista.

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90s jewelry trends

During 90s, the punk rock world rapidly turned into a disco-pop culture.

Designers made chokers from synthetic fabrics of acid colors, with metal pendants, beaded and others. But despite all of this, a tattoo-choker of a black fishing line was especially cool for those times.

Necklace in the form of a chain also came to us from the era of the 90s jewelry and fashion. The color of jewelry material should have looked like an aged silver. Also, fashionistas and stylists used quite long necklaces in a form of a chain as unusual and extravagant belts for trouser suits.

Montana watch was the object of lust of all the 90's fashionistas.

During our decade, you can often find such watches in a golden color, but in those days, the most popular finish was in the silver shade.

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Fashionistas and 90’s jewelry lovers often looked for jewelry with rivets, chains or mysterious symbols in men’s jewelry collections, because there usually could be found stylish, inexpensive and moderately alternative copies. The most popular options that girls selected from the men’s collections were leather-braided bracelets and silver rings with black stones.

Bright plastic jewelry was available to everyone. Thanks to their low price, they were bought and worn in excess. In a combination with bright makeup, plastic jewelry resembled a theatrical performance, but it was very fashionable.

Flashy colors and bold prints were the hallmark of the 90s jewelry and fashion.

Signed prints of the 90s jewelry were colored palms of acid colors, abstract patterns and crazy drawings – all these ornaments you could find among 90s fashion. Such examples usually appeared on wide chokers and bracelets, or large earrings. Such adornments were naturally plastic or gold-plated and appeared mostly in teenage looks.

A pin-earring also appeared thanks to punks. By the way, a trend of different earrings or a single earring was born in the very 90s. After all, such a pin should be very large and it should be combined with a number of studs or ring-earrings, if the girl had pierced ears at different locations.

Now the jewelry item, which we usually call the statement necklace, is a heavy baroque necklace with stones. But then under this definition, there were also accessories that were collected from the design feed in the spirit of “all the best at once”. And there was not even a question about any harmonious form – it is an eclectic adornment – story with lots of independent details, each of which has its own meaning. Adult girls wore massive gold-plated jewelry: necklaces with shells, earrings-rings, wide chains and thin bracelets in several rows.

Bracelets of friendship appeared in the era of the 90s jewelry and probably remained forever in the teenage fashion. Someone used for this jewelry pieces sewing threads and someone even added beads. These bright handmade bracelets were worn in an amount of at least five pieces on each hand. Bracelets and even pendants with the broken heart symbol and the inscription like “Friends Forever” or “Love Forever” were also very popular.

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