Vintage Jewelry

Posted in: Antique style by weddingcometrue | March 3rd 2010 | no comments

Vintage jewelry, back to basics - We bet that, as a child, you were starring for hours at your grandmother`s jewels so big and so colorful. Now, if you want to stay trendy, to need to have one of those jewels, stylists all over the world decreed that vintage current will live a long and flourishing life.

Vintage jewelry reborn in 2009 and 2010 is funny, glamorous and very casual. You can show off yourself with a flower brooch at job and your boss will have nothing to comment, maybe he will ask you for the store to have one for his wife. Original vintage jewelry appeared in Belle Époque, a period of time of social and political flourishment in Europe. Ladies of that period loved tea parties, Opera`s meetings and all that meant social life. They had to look feminine and ravishing.

Vintage jewelry from nowadays kept the main idea of feminity and mystery. The main differences are those related to public and design. Ladies from the `30 were rich and elevated, thanks to their dowry and husbands` affairs, women from year 2000 is quite middle class paid, she is independent and likes to drive her own destiny. For this new kind of woman jewelry producers have thought of delicate, but seductive models, funny designed, but quality jewels.

For your inner desires, jewelry producers have created silver or gold dangled earrings (about 900 EUR), iridescent pearl leaves (about 730 EUR), floral earrings (about 800 EUR), jade shaded earrings (about 900 EUR), royal blue clips (about 880 EUR) or Japan pearl earrings (about 800 EUR).

You will sigh when you will read their prices, indeed they are expensive, but you have to think that they are veritable, created from original gemstones and above all, they are stylish. Once you wear a vintage pair of earrings or a vintage brooch, you feel like you are part of Belle Époque, where manners, elegance and courtesy are keywords.

Vintage jewelry tends to promote the beauties of different geographical areas. You will probably see in stores Austria dangled earrings, with a classical aspect concerning colors and ornaments (850 EUR), green Australian crystal earrings (680 EUR) or Aurora Borealis chandelier clips, which you will remind you of Siberia`s coldness and whiteness (820 EUR).

In order to create vintage jewelry, producers usually play with colors as pink, blue, green and seem to be in love with crystals, pearls, sterling silver, high quality gold, amethyst, topaz or jade. Most common items in vintage collections are earrings, rings and brooches. If you have one gorgeous brooch, it is useless to wear a necklace. You can have a cheap vintage jewel from the corner of your street for 20 or 50 EUR, but once with the low quality of your product, you will lose the shine and grace of an original vintage jewel.