Jewelry Celtic Jewelry
What's Your Jewelry Style?
I wear mainly costume jewelry beause I would probably break or lose the
real stuff....I wear mainly gold and I like the Liz Claiborne costume
jewelry. I have also bought some pieces from the Nine West line as I
like contemporary, fresh looks. My favorite pieces are leverback
earrings (usually small and feminine) and I love bracelets of all types.
I also like retro pieces that look like stuff the stars of the silver
screen would wear....
Celtic jewelry is quite popular among younger adults (say 18 through 26 or
so) probably due to the popularity of the Goth scene (I think this is the
best looking subculture ever).
At least, this is a the case in Seattle... There are many caravans which
sell really nice stuff, all over, and there are some really exciting
upscale places too. Even, because of the popularity of Celtic jewelry,
naturally red hair and freckles have become popular again (what can you do
when the trend changes this way?)
I'm quite happy, I love Celtic jewelry, especially how it's not often done
in gold (which went out really I think at the end of 92 when the 90s
proper began). Of course, the materials are available quite inexpensively
because they're not gold, so making one's own jewelry (fun and easy) is
really quite practical now.
The goth influence has been really tremendous, I wonder if the goth high
point is coming up... I think a lot of things we wear come completely from
the goth scene, though we never thought about it (the leather trend, the
boots, the belts, the silver/chrome/pewter/white gold, the celtic
jewelry). Even you can see Versace's punk safety pins (goth came from
punk) and some of Mugler's work... though really I don't know if goth will
become main stream, it may depend on whether after the turn of the
millenium people decide to take a white & blue purity/minimalist/futurist
approach or whether we go for the gothic punk degenerate industrial
post-atomic horror thing... I'm very excited.
Oh, and right now I am wearing for jewelry (since this is the subject of
the thread) a Mjolnar (Thor's hammer) necklace and a Skagen watch...