Changing Trends in Jewelry

Online, May 30, 2013 (Newswire.com) - Jewels have been a constant throughout recorded human history. However, with the wide-reaching rise of consumer in their interest in Wholesale Bracelets, relatively inexpensive, high quality and stumpy cost costume jewels became increasingly popular. Today, women and men of all income levels aspire to a certain look of affluence. That was just one of several revolutions that would help build business in both retail and wholesale jewelry.

Some years back, the only jewelry men in somewhere conventionally wore were serviceable, i.e., watches and the occasional religious token? A cross, a metal, or perhaps a Jewish star. Usually worn under shirts were they wouldn't be visible. Also, of course, there were rings. Habitually it was a wedding or engagement ring and, in those pre-feminist days, lots of men didn't even wear those. Of course, men were still a huge part of the jewelry market, but as buyers of gifts for women -- including those all-important, salary consuming, wedding and engagement rings.

Along with the various revolutions of the late sixties and early seventies, the jewelry market expanded, particularly on the lower end, and by the late seventies earrings on men and disco-music together moved from the gay community into the general world, presaging the era. Various types of necklaces favored by late sixties era hippies of both genders also moved into the general population. By the mid-seventies, Hawaiian puka shell necklaces were as big a fad for teen boys as for girls, and no disco-diving hipster's ensemble was complete without a gold chain and the wild variety of ornamentation that rappers would be celebrating decades later as "bling." With the arrival of the hip-hop era, wholesale jewelry deals and shipment were never as large or as lucrative.