Color's HOT for Spring and Summer!

Sing is here, summer is nearly here and we have a few fresh vintage jewelry ideas for the season.

According to InStyle HOT color is in, LOTS of color is in and we're excited to show off some of our most fun and flirtiest spring/summer pieces!

Bright lemony yellow plastic parure (yellow is the new black!):



Compare InStyle's May edition, page 32.

Vintage silver tone clip earrings with pairs of bright yellow glass cabochon stones:




Gos with everything and loaded with COLOR, Les Bernard chunky charms necklace with 3(!) pairs of matching earrings:




Really fun and funky plastic bead necklace:




Colorful rhinestone sphere pendant on a long chain just screams spring time:




A huge hot pink flower sits on top of this silver plated hinged clamper:




Fun and funky neon green plastic earring, 1960's Made in Hong Kong:




French Poured Glass Bead Necklace, lots of color and interesting beads:




Great beads, great with jeans:




Great enamel colors of burgundy, lemon yellow, goldenrod, blue, green and teal hinged bangle bracelet and earrings:




Colorful rhinestone locket, attributed Czechoslovakian:




Bows and flowers, both very hot right now as accessories...here's a way to do both, a colorful bow brooch and earring set by Hollycraft, the bow decorated with different colored rhinestone flower:

Black and white vintage jewelry

Black and white...always a fashion staple for spring and summer. You can make that statement in your jewelry as well. Black and white, and black and clear has been a popular color combo in vintage jewelry going back nearly 100 years. From Art Deco to the mod '60s and again in the 1980's, there are examples of black and white jewels everywhere. Use of beads, pearls, plastics and rhinestones, it can be subtle or dramatic, bold or elegant, or just plain fun and funky....here are just a few examples:

Art Deco Black and pearl negligee necklace


Flapper era black and white glass beads sautoir:


Venetian glass beads necklace...terrific black and white pizzo beads:


Art Deco sterling black and clear glass chiclet and cameo necklace/bracelet set:


Hobe' black and white rhinestone bracelet:


Art Deco molded glass and rhinestone bracelet:


1960's black rhinestone in white japanned setting brooch and earrings:


Black & white pin striped lucite earrings:


1980's huge 4" black & white plastic shapes chandelier earrings:

Economical Fashionable Jewelry - Go Vintage

Always, during uncertain and unstable economic times, women have found ways to look fashionable and wear beautiful jewelry. During the early 1930's and on through the Depression, woman found unusual and unconventional material to use in their jewelry. Buttons, fabrics, plastics and wood all replaced more expensive gems and precious metals. Rhinestone became more and more popular as diamonds and other gems were either too expensive or simply not possible for the average woman. During WWII, jewelry makers shifted to the use of sterling, when other metals were being used for the war effort.

And today, even when most of the fashion industry still insists on over-charging, i.e. $200.00+ for jeans and simple gold plated chains with cz stones will run you more than $100 at big department stores.....you CAN find fashionable, even trendy jewelry, if you go vintage.
There are vintage jewelry stores all over the internet and prices for everything from colorful rhinestones to authentic period Art Deco pieces, the real deal are considerable less expensive than much of today's designer offerings. And can certainly be as much fun, if not more, to wear.
Take for example, some of the more fun and colorful jewelry shown on page 18 and 274 of the March edition In Style magazine, and range from $30-$175. Or, how about the spread of fabulous rhinestone jewelry pages 136-138, worn by celebrities at recent awards shows. The pieces featured run between for thousands of dollars,but shown below are nearly identical looks for considerable less. And these are just a few examples:

A huge hot pink flower bracelet:




Stunning, huge domed cocktail ring:




Flashy prism cocktail ring:




Sparkling Lime rhinestone ring:




Beautiful Art Deco link bracelet:




1920's Art Deco chromiumbaguette bracelet:




Super cute Art Deco sterling silver ring set:

Valentine's Day Vintage Jewelry Ideas

Hi Everyone!

Looking for new Valentine's Day Jewelry Ideas? How about Valentine's Day VINTAGE Jewelry Ideas? Right now, anything HEART is IN! And there's no better time to wear them than now! Here are some Vintage heart and Vintage Valentine suggestions:

Adorable signed Patricia sweetheart bracelet.




Victorian Italian micromosaic heart shaped pendant c.1880.




Elegant 1940's sterling double heart pin.




Enormous Edwardian jade hart pendant.





And how about for that special GUY in your life?! I'm sure he would appreciate some vintage love also!

Men's dress Ruby glass cufflinks set.




Snazzy Topaz rivoli cuff links.




Hearts are so in right now!! Here are a few more suggestions for this year's Valentine's Day:

Vibrant sapphire blue glass heart pendant.




1930's-1940's gold filled heart shaped locket.




Stunning black diamond rhinestone heart brooch.




Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Golden Globe Glam

So I watched the Golden Globes this weekend and, of course, noticed some stars' stunning jewelry pieces.

This piece reminded me of what "Doubt" costar Viola Davis was wearing that night, a glitzy flower bracelet.
Here is a Delizza & Elster rhinestone clamper and matching earring set with a similar look:




Another star that caught my eye was Beyonce Knowles. She was sparkling from head to toe!
Some flashy bib necklaces came to mind after watching her strut her stuff on the red carpet:
Rhinestone baguette bib necklace:



Spectacular Alice Caviness simulated pearl and rhinestone drop bib necklace:




Demi Moore's wide Art Deco style diamond cuff bracelet took me back to these pieces both period Art Deco rhinestone bracelets:









Sandra Bullock's wore gorgeous snake bracelets, snake accessories are a current hot trend:

Delfino Mexican sterling ring:



And a very rare Rodi and Weinenberger 1920's German Art Deco snake bracelet:





I know everyone watching the pre-show interviews noticed Eva Mendez's glamorous turquoise bib necklace! I absolutely loved it! Here's one similar with matching earrings that I also adore.
Vintage aqua art glass bib necklace and matching earrings:




Highlight the link and paste it to your browser to check out these super stars' entire ensembles!

http://omg.yahoo.com/photos/best-dressed-at-the-golden-globes/2578#id=17

More Vintage Jewelry Price Reductions

Happy New Year!
I've taken advantage of a day off (well, I guess it's not really a day off if I was working!!!) and moved more items to my clearance pages, permanently reducing prices. Some of the reduced items are:
Brilliant pot metal floral brooch:

Pot metal rhinestone peacock brooch:

Art Deco rhinestone and marcasite arrow brooch:

And this dazzling topaz rhinestone wreath brooch:

The rest can be seen by clicking the title of this post.
I've also added several more designer galleries including Boucher, Alice Caviness, Kramer, Vendome, Florenza and Hollycraft, all accessible from the site home page, and the navigation box at the bottom of all catalogue pages.

Look for more reductions throughout the month....and Happy New Year!