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 As it believed the beautiful girl wear
silver, the rich ones wear gold. Silver is a unique ore in most of it. It is
not only to that it can easily be polished or because it has light reflection
and even some of the germicide features. It is not because silver jewels are
believed to protect its owners from all kinds of evil spirits and it is
definitely not only because it is much cheaper than all of the other precious
ores. The main and the major feature of the silver jewels are their connatural
genteelness, intelligence they bring and sophistication they possess. Silver
simply cannot be trivial nor can it be vulgar nor pathetic on purpose. And if
you don't trust me just try putting on silver earrings, a couple of rings a
necklace with a pendant and, let's say, five bracelets.
If following the fashion rules and combined
with clothes properly this set of silver jewelry will make one look weird,
strange, stylish, and different but never will one look vulgar. And now try
wearing the same set but instead of silver use gold. It doesn't really matter
what will one wear it with, at best she will look like one of the concubines
from a harem or like a Gypsy.
White pliable ore (a narrow wire which is
two kilometer long can be made out of one gram of the ore) is well-known to
mankind from the ancient times. There is no extraordinary reason behind this
fact it is just that silver just like gold could have been met in the pure form
which should have not been smelted or deformed in any way. Silver could have
also been found at quite accessible heights which made it easy to obtain it.
Due to these features of silver ore - accessibility and purity - silver became
very popular and was spreading around the world rapidly. In Assyria and Babylon
silver was considered a sacred ore and later on it was silver jewelry that was
the indication of the wealth of the rich and successful. Silver ore and its
formations were very popular by alchemists in the medieval times. From the
middle of the thirteenth century silver became the typical ore for creating
dishware, coins and money in general (for example ingots), jewelry, weapons,
precious implements for different needs and uses. Silver is mostly used in
these fields until today.
In the last twenty years silver jewelry
became trendy again and now at the peak of the fashion. According to statistics
in 2004 silver goods and jewelry sales have increased by seventeen percents.
Christian Lacroix was the first one who has ever concentrated on working with
silver jewelry in the year 2000.
According to Christian, silver goods are the bridge between
old-fashionable and modern, a bridge between the charm of megalopolises and the
attraction of the medieval. There is no dictation just some simple trends in
today's "silver" fashion. For example minimalistic trends are at the high peak
at this season. The city's style is also popular and in fashion now and the
Giorgio Armani fashion house introduces it in its new fashion line. But at the
same time the global fashion line of baroque and the so much loved traditional,
maybe, ethnical motifs. Tiffany and Christian Bernard fashion lines combine
silver and brilliants as well as rubies and other precious stones.
The Advantages of the Silver Jewelry:
- Silver jewelry can be easily combined with
any skin type and color (whereas yellow gold would highlight every single
disadvantage of one's skin).
- Silver items keeps its freshness for a long
time and does not get covered with this greasy oily taint
- Silver's matted glow would not take the eye
off the owner and her dress nor will attract much attention to it.
- The prices for this type of jewelry are not
simply accessible. You can literary buy the new set of silver jewelry for every
dress you have out there. Furthermore there are a lot of goods made from silver
with different types of goods in the market and different way of the way the
goods are being produced. Since there is no real silver fashion out there, the
consumer herself chooses what to wear whether it would be postmodern jewelry or
classical and conservatives forms of jewels, hi-tech or bio-style, antique
alike or avant-garde, hand-made or press-forming: it is all up to the woman to
choose the right type of jewelry which would not only suit the fashion but
first and foremost suit her.
- The silver jewels are never out of fashion,
they can change their status, for example, become cultic, miraculous or
extraordinary from being highly demanded but they always are in fashion. Silver
jewelry becomes something very exclusive like a rarity or a family relic.
Silver earrings, rings, pendants, bracelets are being inherited from generation
to generation and become more valuable and more essential to their owners with
time to come.
- Silver is combined greatly with precious
gemstones. While being just the setting for the gemstone, silver shows it off
in the best way possible. Smooth and plain cold tincture of silver ore would
excellently highlight the colorful glow and texture of any gemstone.
- Silver in the more that is acceptable for
any gender to wear. It would both look greatly in female collections as well as
in men's closet.
There are not that many disadvantages of
silver and to be certain there's really only one of them: silver gets dark
fairly fast. But to be honest this disadvantage of the ore can easily be
transferred into its advantage, depends on the way you look at it: noble patina
and sophisticated shine all over the surface looks very impressive. And those
who don't really like the way it looks can easily rub the jewel and clean it
that way, it really is that simple.
Natalia Rudenko
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