Fashion in constantly on the move and the same is with handmade jewellery designs and sometimes it is hard to keep up especially if we are looking for an original jewellery piece. One thing that cannot be ignored is that these beautiful fashion accessories have never been as popular as they are today.
These fashionable pieces of handmade jewellery have been around for many years and the popularity comes and goes, these fashion designs are not meant to be around for a long time as the design is very on trend and many of these pieces are cheaper and designs to compliment particular outfits so if you are not wanting to wear this original jewellery piece next season when the fashion changes it is not a big problem.
To make these fund and fashionable pieces affordable to all of us and so that we can update our jewellery box on a regular basis the original jewellery designs have been crafted from cheaper materials and base metals take the place of precious metals like gold and silver. Glass and synthetic stones replace the very expensive precious gemstones to give us all the look of expensive pieces that we can all afford.
The designs of these pieces of handmade jewellery were first seen in the 1920’s and it was the fashion designer CoCo Chanel that first brought these original jewellery designs to the market. This era came to be known as the Art Deco period and she made very popular the designs of cocktail rings, bangles, jewellery sets, and long pendants.
The next era to come along is what we know refer to as Retro and these are pieces of handmade jewellery that were handmade between 1930 to 1950 and this is when original jewellery designs really took off. Manufacturing possess had developed so that pieces of jewellery could be mass produced and new materials were being used to create these fashion pieces. These designs could now be seen everywhere and these were worn by all the Hollywood greats like Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, Betty Davis and more of these glamorous stars. Because these designs were being created in large amounts it meant that everyone could feel beautiful and glamorous like their favourite Hollywood star.
In the 1960’s the fashion for handmade jewellery became big, bright and bold and this was the time when modern art was very popular so many of the original jewellery designs took this as the theme for their unusual designs. Large chunky bracelets were being worn that had been made from bright coloured acrylics and charm bracelets were back in high fashion and they were covered with bright coloured charms. Fashion designers started to design their own original jewellery collections and would design collections of jewellery sets, earrings, bracelets and necklaces that would complement their own individual fashion styles.
If you are going shopping today for pieces of handmade jewellery in the latest fashion styles you will see pieces that have a touch of each of these eras in their original jewellery designs. As we seem to have a love of anything that is vintage or retro in design this also applies to the pieces of handmade jewellery that we are wearing. All the large shops have their own original jewellery collections that have earrings with the glamour of Hollywood in the 1940’s and 1950’s, necklaces that have a look of the Art Deco era and jewellery sets that have been made from large brightly coloured beads into large chunky designs that will take you back to the 1960’s.
If you would like something that is individual and unusual handmade jewellery in this collection of beautiful original jewellery has lots of unique one of a kind designs and also limited edition designs. The collection has a full collection of earrings, bracelets and unique jewellery in matching sets all in unique and original handmade designs.
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