Choosing what type of jewelry to wear is a personal choice for most people. Of course you have those slaves for fashion who wear whatever is most popular in any given season, but mostly, I believe, jewelry is a personal choice.
Take a woman who wears whatever she sees in magazines or on Television with whatever she is wearing, there are people like that and I will tell you that retail wouldn’t be the same without those souls.
Give me someone who wears what they love. A locket that has some sentimental value, or their wedding ring with everything they wear because they love it and always want it near them. That’s what I’m talking about. So let’s talk about that.
Personal jewelry is jewelry that has been handed down, given as a gift or inherited. It is jewelry that means something to you. I have a locket that my mother and father gave me for my 16th birthday. It isn’t valuable in any way other than I love it. I mean it isn’t the finest gold and doesn’t have any diamonds on it, but I love it and I wear it any chance I have, and every single time I wear it I remember where I got it.
When you inherit some jewelry, I am sure it doesn’t always suit your style, but you don’t want to get rid of it because someone else wanted you to have it. For instance, how about you have inherited your mother’s pearls or her engagement ring? These things are precious and precious to you, but if you never wear them, so what good are they doing you? What if you took that inherited engagement ring to a jewelry store and asked them to put it in a setting that you would wear or that you would like? It is still the same ring; it is just now in a style that you would wear and use. Much better and I will bet that if you asked that person that you inherited from, they would agree with that. I can see no benefit in allowing something like that to sit around in a drawer and not ever be worn. I guess if you just don’t like pearls, those will just have to sit in your drawer, but if you do like them, they could be restrung and that would freshen them up and make them wearable. Pearls take on a beautiful sheen when they are worn, they like the oil in your skin and it makes them beautiful. Sometimes it just takes a little effort and those lovely things that you remember your mother wearing can be just as lovely for you to wear if you want to. I take a lot of pleasure in wearing things that were my mothers.
So, if you are a trend setter and you only want to wear what is in fashion this very minute, the retailers love you so much. But, if you are a traditionalist and love the grace of older stuff, take them to your jeweler and they will help make you very happy.