Opposite to real jewellery which are expensive enough to dig a hole in your pocket, Fashion Jewellery are quite low on budget and comes with varieties of designs, variations and colors.
One might never be able to make it or buy it with real metals because it ultimately increases cost over a heavy cost metal jewellery.
The metals and stones used in making the jewellery are not precious but are plated with precious or semi-precious metals like gold or silver or rhodium.
History of Fashion Jewellery
Jewellery is loved and used by women since a very long time means even before 30000 years. Costume Jewellery or Fashion Jewellery has been a part of culture since last 300 years. At that time, in metal jewellery only real jewellery were available. In 18th century, the jewellers started making them with inexpensive glass. In 19th century, they started making jewellery with semi precious and non precious metals and stones. With change in time, jewellery was made available in different types of the metals also which are quite affordable for the consumers.
Fashion Jewellery is also called as Costume Jewellery were manufactured as ornamentation to complement the outfits. Outfits, back in 20th century was called as “Costume” and hence ornaments which used to complement the garments was called as Costume Jewellery.
However, with time this has been changed to Fashion Jewellery because more than clothes, people wear Fashion these days. Earlier these type of jewellery was made up of simulated gemstones, which were set in silver, nickel or brass.
What is Fashion Jewellery?
Fashion Jewellery is made out of base metals like, copper, aluminum, brass etc, and simulated stones. Some of the manufacturers use cheaper metals also which are very harmful for skin and health of human. Read more about types of metals used in manufacturing fashion jewellery. However, BeautiArt Fashion Jewellery is made out of only those materials which are safe for the consumer.
Along with above mentioned metals, fashion jewellery is also made with different types of stones like, Cubic Zirconia, Kundan, Vilandi etc. Refer below images.
The material used in making fashion makes it an inexpensive alternative. In 17th and 18th Century, the arises a trend of fake jewellery in Paris which then got spread to other cities of Europe.
Industrial revolution brought the means to produce imitation jewellery with materials like steel. This made the jewellery available to the middle class people. This made the fashion of costume jewellery in and made a revolution in the world of Fashion in Ornamentalism.
There are different categories in which Jewellery available in the market. Let’s have a look at them.
Categories of Jewellery
- Art Jewellery:
This type of jewellery is made with precision and intrinsic work and involves a lot of hard work. It may take several months to make one piece of Art Jewellery and are also expensive then regular imitation jewellery.
This jewellery is made specifically made for wearable purpose. It is made only keeping Art in mind and not targeting any particular audience or for selling purpose. This is basically taken by museums, art galleries or collectors.
A person cannot wear this jewellery in any occasion or in regular life. But it can be worn by a model shooting for any jewellery maker or a seller.
2. Craft Jewellery:
This jewellery is made for the purpose of wearability. The crafts person understands what can be worn and makes the jewellery in tha fashion. However, the craft work in the jewellery always speaks for itself.
This jewellery is sold to specific target audience in craft fairs, events or ecommerce portals or on company personal websites.
3. Fashion Jewellery:
As explained above is purely for wearability purpose and sold to audience at large. This does not mean junk jewellery but is a pure replacement of real jewellery which are available at very affordable prices. Base metals like, copper, silver, platinum, brass etc are used to make it.
4. Fine Jewellery:
This jewellery is made with the precious metals like gold, silver, platinum etc. Also precious stones like, rubbies, kundan, polki, vilandi etc. are studded in it. This jewellery is preferred by upper class people as they are little more expensive than fashion jewellery.
This are made purely for wearability purpose and are sold online on websites and also offline in stores.
5. Vintage Jewellery:
Vintage is the jewellery which is 50 to 100 years old. This jewellery designs can be and are incorporated in fashion to create unique, classic and creative fashion statement. It ads an extra flair to its outfit and easy to match with the recent or hot trends.
Who are the trendsetters?
The trend setters are always and will be the celebrities. Celebs has brought a huge revolution which was a turn around for common people who turned to wearing fashion jewellery in weddings also. The jewellery worn by them in parties, weddings, model shoots, night clubs etc are available as replicas in fashion jewellery online stores.
Jewellery worn by celebrities become the style statement and people would like to follow them. However, not the bollywood people are considered as celebrities. The influencers on instagram and facebook also has become celebrities. People follow the trends and style statement made by them. Social Media Influencers are at boom these days.
How to find your Ideal Fashion:
Finding your ideal fashion statement is very important because the jewellery you are wearing should reflect your taste and personality. Be it classy, trendy, vintage, artistic or anything could it be.
Once you understand you fashion taste, go to the offline nearby store or an online website of Fashion Jewellery and select piece accordingly. When you wear jewellery which corresponds to your taste, its becomes your style statement and people look up to you. Then maintain it. When a flashing piece of Jewellery matches a magnificent personality, it will extremely complement the style, your smile and glowing face.
Different Types of Fashion Jewellery:
There are different types of Fashion Jewellery like, Fashion Earrings, Necklaces, Finger Rings, Toe Rings, Bracelets and many more. There are different occasions to wear different types of jewellery. If it is your wedding, you may wear everything of these and if it’s a cousin, sister or brother or a friend’s wedding you may limit yourself from overdoing it.
If it’s a wedding in family, you may wear earrings and necklace and a bracelet. You may even skip wearing necklace because a heavy earring and heavy clothing will do the job.
As India tradition, hands of a girl or a women especially in any occasion should not be empty. Hence, you may wear chudi in one hand and a bracelet in another. This will help you be free also and give a nice look also.
Make sure, if you are wearing light or a simpler dressing then wearing heavy jewellery will medium make is recommended. And if your dressing is heavy, then wearing light jewellery is recommended. Wear a light make-up to give a balanced look as you would never like to overdo on your looks.
How to Stylize Yourself with Fashion Jewellery:
Not only any function, but it is also important to stylize yourself in day to day life. Looking
presentable always (except when you are alone or with close people at home) has become really important these days. And for any women, jewellery plays a very important role in looking good and presentable. Changing your earpiece or necklace or anything everyday depending upon what you are wearing, really helps.
Here are some tips for you to Stylize yourself with Fashion Jewellery:
- Select Your Jewellery Carefully: We mostly select our jewellery, especially earrings based on what color dress we are wearing or will be wearing. But there are factors like, your hair color, hair length, eye color, shape your face, body type/ shape, skin color also to be considered.
Select long and bigger earrings if you have long and thick hair because your hair might cover your earrings. If you have round face, wear long earrings as this will help your face look longer and thinner. Same if you have round body type. Try to avoid proper gold color jewellery or earrings if your skin type is black color. You may wear dark gold or rose gold color jewellery.
One more important factor to be considered is where you are going and whom you are meeting. Try to visualise whom you are meeting. If you are meeting a group of ladies you may wear casual earrings, if you are meeting some office people, wear light earrings like pearl stud earrings or any such and likewise.
2. Don’t Forget to Change Your Jewellery: Many women think, it’s ok to keep the same earrings on for many days or may be for lifetime. But that’s not the idea. If you keep changing your earrings daily, you will see a little difference in yourself which can also work as self motivation. And great feeling is when someone compliments you about your wearings, changes, looks, collection etc. You deserve it. Get it for yourself.
3. Start Your Own Trend: When you see what is trending outside, doesn’t necessarily mean you should follow the same for yourself regardless of whether it suits you or not. It is recommended to see what’s trending, understand whether it is for you or not and then adopt it. It’s just ok not go ahead with recent fashion trends because better not to follow then to look bad or simply not you.
4. Decide Your Focal Point: If you know or decided what is your focus, whether your clothes or your jewellery, Well and Good. But if you don’t know decide it because you should make people look at you and not people decided what jewellery they will notice you are wearing.
5. Break the Rules: Styling yourself is an art and there is are not rules in art and creativity. The more creative you are the more unique and different you will look and shall stand out. You can mix and match anything you like provided, you can carry it well. So, if you think this is a rule, Break It! Try whatever you want and see for yourself what is looking best on you and the outfit you are wearing. And then, if you are convinced with it, Just Go For It.
While choosing jewellery there are many things which we ignore and make mistakes there. It is said that, if you want to succeed you should know where you may fail or go wrong with. When you know that, you will not make those mistakes and shall do what is required. The mistakes are:
- Not playing around with different kind of jewellery.
- Choosing jewellery over the dress.
- Tend to match every piece of jewellery with the outfit. (You may also wear contrast).
- Not considering the color of the stones the jewellery is studded with.
- Not matching the necklace with neckline.
- Buy jewellery from cheap stores (you will never get the finish and quality to match with your outfit or personality)
- You are not creatively matching the jewellery and just follow cliche rules.
- Not knowing your personality before buying the jewellery.
- Not considering where you are going and whom you are meeting before deciding what jewellery you are wearing.
- Wearing jewellery without knowing what metals are used to make it. Because it causes allergies and then you ultimately stop wearing them.