3 Tips for Choosing Timeless Jewelry
Want to make a jewelry purchase you won’t get sick of after a few months? These tips can help guide you to the jewelry pieces you’ll wear for the rest of your life.
1. Don’t Ignore Trends
Jewelry trends are fun, and it makes sense to want to buy trendy earrings or necklaces every now and then. But it’s also important to know the difference between trendy and timeless. Some trends do end up in the “timeless” category—tennis bracelets, for example, became a major trend, and got their name, after a 1987 incident involving tennis player Chris Evert’s jewelry. For the most part, though, trendy jewelry will end up looking passe eventually, just like trendy clothes do.
Watching trends is important when shopping for timeless jewelry because it’ll allow you to steer away from styles that might not look so appealing in a few years. The most flash-in-the-pan jewelry trends tend to be quite bold and unusual, like the oversized tassel earrings that have become so popular in 2017. Chances are that these fun and frivolous tassels will be out of fashion and out of heavy rotation in your jewelry collection by 2020, so it makes sense to avoid this style when you’re looking for long-term investment pieces.
2. Find Your Signature Style
Defining your signature style is the key to making sure all your clothing and accessories related shopping is successful and pays off with a wardrobe you’ll actually wear and enjoy again and again. Though your style can of course change over time, there are certain elements of your taste that are unlikely to experience major alterations after you’re firmly in your adult lifestyle phase and you know what you like. With jewelry, it’s important to know what basics are important to you. Think in terms of scale, color, texture and what parts of the body you like wearing jewelry on the most. That will make it easy to select jewels that’ll stay in heavy rotation for years.
3. Think Vintage and Antique
Estate jewelry, otherwise known as pre-owned jewelry, is a great source of inspiration for those looking to build a collection of timeless forever pieces. You don’t have to purchase estate jewelry if you’d rather have your own brand-new baubles, but looking at jewelry from vintage and antique eras does provide a lot of useful information on what elements are truly timeless. Jewelry that represents a temporary fad or the style of a very specific era will stand out like a sore thumb, but the rings, earrings, necklaces and bracelets that shine in unique but tasteful ways tend to have certain things in common. You can take note of what common qualities you like and incorporate those elements into a design for custom jewelry you’ll wear forever.
Once you know what metal color, gemstones and styles you like best, you can either have some custom jewelry made to suit your take on timeless jewelry style or see what ready-to-wear options we offer in our store. We can help you navigate the specifics of classic jewelry pieces to find something you’ll wear for a lifetime.
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