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 The history of fashion has never done without bracelets as
jewelry accessories. Bracelets were must-have accessories in Eastern countries
whereas golden and silver bracelets in Ancient Ellas and Russia just
highlighted the status of the women wearing bracelets showing her status in the
society and adherence to the nobles.
The word «bracelet» came into the jewelry world from the
French bracelet meaning just the «wrist». The archeologists assert that people would
wear bracelets since the Paleolithic epoch when the tusks of mammoths were used
to make the ring-shaped wrist accessories for women. The bracelets come among the
museum items of the Stone Age made from the stones of intricate shapes. The
holes were drilled in them which were linked with the leather bands. The metal
bracelets are found to be trendy during the Bronze Age.
Since those times the Lady Fashion caused the bracelets get exposed
to various subtle experiments. The design and style changed along with the size
and structure. The «bracelet» etiquette acquired to wear these accessories on
the right hand unlike the wrist watches. The fashion trends of the present times
favored for bracelets to wear in the way «who likes what and how», and actually
bracelets on both hands look appropriate and trendy.
The designers developed several «basic» models of bracelets
with pros and cons for each of them which are good to consider when choosing
your type of bracelets.
Round bracelets
Round bracelets have been in favor since antiquity and they
are still in now. In the medieval Russia the bracelets were also called bands
and they were mainly worn to attest the state of wealth. The noble women used
to purchase golden and silver bracelets while the city dwellers liked glass
bracelets and copper bracelets were left for countrywomen.
Modern tendencies allow wearing a single bracelet on each
hand and lots of them on both hands are still in for any occasion. It is up to
the taste and desired image a woman wants to achieve. The seeming ruggedness of
such bracelets ensemble is paid scot and lot with the little weight of
accessories. The classical round bracelet is usually made as the one-piece
ring. The swivel versions come also created by some designers when two halves
of the ring is fixed with the joint on one side and on the other side there is
a lock.
Open ring-styled bracelets
Such bracelet is considered to be the accomplishment of the Inca
civilization. It has no clasp, and it is easy to handle since it is easily
taken on and off. It is well squeezed to the size of the wrist. The drawback of
such open bracelets is that they are often deformed and are not durable at all.
«Tennis» bracelets
Once upon a time Chris Evert, the tennis player, dropped a round
diamonds bracelet on the grass while playing a set of tennis. The event caused the
jewelers to create the tennis bracelet which is thin, round, incrusted with small
precious stones, most often diamonds or sapphires, and with some more clasps. Many
ladies wear tennis bracelets all day and night as the wedding rings.
Chain bracelets
Chain-style bracelets are typical for jewelry made from precious
metals, like gold, silver and platinum. Chain bracelets often come with the dangling
plate with engraved symbols or letters. The military plate set the trend to have
such a plate as an accessory in the XX century.
Those who served in the army are aware that the plate
contains the personal data about the soldier in case of his death or any other
extreme occasion. Consequently, the trend to engrave the name of the beloved,
the phrases and symbols meaningful for the owner on the plate is popular now.
Woven bracelets
The canons of the jewelry industry require weaving bracelets
from narrow metal bands resembling the wire and as a result we have a delicate
laced structure of the jewel. The technology of bracelet weaving was perfectly
mastered by the admirers of hand made works. They use beads, bugle beads,
natural material, leather, textile and various plastic fittings instead of gold
and silver.
Glider bracelets
Glider bracelets are jewels made from plenty of chains
called gliders. The chains are linked with the joints or elastic and flexible
springs. The most expensive models of glider bracelets have every chain
engraved with art work or decorated with the insertions of precious stones. Sometimes
glider bracelets are the really haute couture items since every reputed jewelry
house tries to develop the signature linking techniques and chain processing.
How to wear bracelets
Ladies with thin aristocratic wrists can enjoy both thin and
solid bracelets. Thin bracelets add some elegance to the image when the solid
bracelets make the wrists look fragile.
A hand of average size is also a goon version to experiment
with volumes and shapes of bracelets.
The wider wrist allows only solid and bulky bracelets that
attract attention to the hands.
Bracelets are chosen to match the style of wear. Such materials
as wood, elephant ivory, and natural gems go well with ethnic motifs.
Luxury evening dresses go with golden bracelets with diamonds
fixed on the case on the surface level. The solemn events welcome bracelets
from platinum, white or yellow gold encrusted with any precious gems.
The business style requires traditional materials and
jewelry techniques. Bracelet-like watches is sometimes enough in the case from
precious metals.
Summer attires look attractive with cheaper plastic,
leather, wooden or bony bracelets. The ensemble of several various bracelets is
allowed for each hand.
What celebrities prefer
Bracelets appear to be the favorite accessory by
celebrities. Thus, Beyonce is especially keen on «wild» stones and wears the
malachite bracelet with the non-faceted diamond by Simmons Jewelry Company. Halle
Berry goes banana with plastic and wooden bracelets and change them every day.
There was the parade of bracelets demonstrated at the last
ceremony of Emmy Award. Blake Christina Lively showed off wearing an elegant
diamond accessory by Lorraine Schwartz, Leighton Meester boasted with the wide
bracelet from yellow gold wit the diamond insertions by Cathy Waterman, Debora
Missing was wearing Lorraine Schwartz bracelet as well made from over one
hundred carat yellow diamonds. Tina Fey was shot by photographers wearing a
diamond tennis bracelet by Fred Leighton.
Natalya Glebova, Miss Universe 2005 managed to try on the
most expensive bracelet in the world. The jewelry named Ishi decorated the hand
of the beauty from the arm to the wrist. The jewelry trend Suashish Diamonds
Ltd demonstrated its masterpiece at the international exhibition in Mumbai in
2005. The bracelet was made from a kilo of gold and ten thousand diamonds. The
experts estimated the bracelet for one million dollars.
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