Silver Bracelets- From Hippie to Hip

This durability extends to silver jewellery rings also. Once the metal has been cast into the mould, the loop of the bangle or the ring will not bend or become disfigured due to regular wear. •Design – This hardness of silver allows one to get creative with the designs of the bracelets too. Gems like diamonds, emerald, rubies, etc are set much better in silver and chances of their falling off are rather rare. Silver can be carved much more finely that gold can. Anyone from who has lived through the 70 will know that silver bracelets were a hippie essential, as were silver jewellery rings. Both genders wore them with equal élan and this is why silver ornaments did get branded as ‘junk’ jewellery. However, today things are very different. With the advent of fine silver jewellery, silver ornaments have moved from being hippie to hep. Several red carpet events have seen silver bangles, rings and of course the silver wrist piece, being worn by the most famous of them all. The silver wrist ornament does seem to have an obvious advantage over it gold counterpart. A brief view of these follows below- •Durability – Anyone who has bought gold bangles know that the purer the gold content, the more likely is the bangle to bend its shape. It seems silly to pay for a gold bangle but keep the purity levels low. Silver wrist ornaments offer no such problems.