I feel like I gravitate toward very bold funky pieces like Kenneth Jay Lane - I adore anything with animals or animal prints. These were particularly trendy over the past year but now I feel like I'm seeing a resurgence of more delicate feminine pieces.....
I'm curious what people think....is the costume jewelry over or can they co-exist with delicate/feminine? What is your favorite between the two looks???
Costume jewelry will *never* be over. It's been around just as long (if not longer) than fine jewelry. I love jewelry of all kinds and I wear whatever I want, whenever I want. I mix all the time fine/costume/bridge jewelry all the time and I don't worry about what's "in". :)
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ditto. if i wear chunkier jewelry i usually limit it to one chunky piece at a time. or i'll mix (ex. chunky ring with delicate earrings). with more delicate pieces i feel i can get away with more. today i have on a really delicate necklace (my new one from the weekday shopping post) plus a simple pair of stud earrings and my watch.
i like both it just depends on my mood and my outfit.
I love both! Really depends on my mood, some days when I want to feel simple I wear the smaller fine jewlery I own, other days when I am feeling funky or bold I wear large statment peices of jewelry.
I'm with Atlgirl and the others. I like costume and I love fine jewelry too. It depends on the look I'm going for. If I'm wearing a rather bland outfit, I'll use shoes and jewelry to make the outfit pop, but if I'm wearing a funkier outfit, sometimes I just want the jewelry to add a hint of sparkle, but not compete. It just depends.
I recently dug out a box of costume jewelry that belonged to my great-grandmother, and I've been wearing it to work as often as I can work it into an outfit.
I do a mix. Not so much chunky jewelry or delicate, but sort of in between. I don't really have any fine jewelry, just a few pieces. I'm not into the bling-bling-diamond look, so I tend to buy/make sterling silver and vermeil/goldfill pieces.
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I have had my eye on some chunky gold bracelets! I saw some really cute ones in More magazine, my favorite being the chanel cuff of course, but I can't bring myself to get it for costume jewelry! But do you guys think chunky gold jewlery is cute? I was thinking of wearing all white with gold shoes and gold jewelry to a party this weekend. Sound cute? or too much?