SILVER JEWELRY

With its appealing, cool and crisp white luster, sterling silver jewelry combines the endurance of a precious metal with an uncanny ability to adapt to fashion’s demands. The unlimited selection of designs available, from demure and traditional to bold and dramatic, allows you to build a vast and personalized silver jewelry wardrobe as varied as your every mood, style and budget.

Women

Casual
Only about 25 percent of cumulative world silver production occurred before the 1770s. Records remain somewhat incomplete for the periods before 1900, however they play a critical part in determining cumulative historical production. To learn more, select from the following periods of time. Material adapted in part from the Silver Institute's Stocks of Silver Around the World publication.

Work
Give your work clothes a lift by accenting your outfits with sterling silver jewelry and accessories. Sterling silver endures and can be enjoyed for a lifetime, and is more affordable than other precious metals. Its appealing cool white gleam will add that extra special touch to your work attire.

Holiday
The holiday season is the time to shimmer and shine. Sterling silver jewelry is always an appropriate way to sparkle for the holidays. Or simply when given as a gift, it says you care to all the special women in your life.

Bridal
An opulent choker, elegant pendant or hair ornament of traditional white or pastel colored pearls set in sterling silver are luxurious and fashionable gifts the groom might consider giving his bride. Sterling silver wedding rings are also very popular right now. Surprise the bridal party with delicate silver and stone drop or stud earrings, a classic bangle bracelet or hoop earrings updated with pearl accents, or a simple strand of pearls or beads with a personalized charm. Accessories to be worn on the wedding day are particularly appropriate, but choose items that will be used and enjoyed after the festivities are over.

Teen

What's Hot
Today's teens don't sit idly by waiting for the next trend to happen, they create trends. Silver jewelry is the number one accessory with young adults. Favorable price points and the versatility of the metal, shiny designs of neck and waist chains, cuffs, ID and ankle bracelets, stackable rings, neck wires and fashionable earrings are all the rage.

Right Now
Sterling jewelry styles run the gamut from classic and vintage to modern and contemporary. Today’s teens are sophisticated and trendy. Sterling silver jewelry offers the versatility that today’s stylish teens are looking for.

Street Scene
Today's juniors are style trend setters, spending freely, and continually experimenting and refining their own “customized” looks with the latest jewelry and fashions. Let’s face it, today’s teens know what is hot and what is not in music, fashion, technology and movies. And jewelry is the simplest way for juniors to make a statement about who they are.

Men

Accessories
It used to be thought that only women were interested in shopping, especially in the area of jewelry and accessories—but no more. Men are becoming the largest growing segment of shoppers behind the traditionally strong female shopper and the increasing teen population. Men’s interest in silver accessories and jewelry is on the rise. And since the old adage “clothes make the man” is true, it’s also true that accessories make the clothes.

Cufflinks
Not only are men shopping for gifts, but there has also been an increase in men’s jewelry purchases for themselves. Sales of men’s sterling silver jewelry and accessories are on the rise, with cufflinks being most popular. French cuff shirts are back in fashion, calling for dressier, upscale, as well as refined novelty cuff links and stud sets in cigar, martini, automobile, golf, computer and many other motifs.

Hobbies
Men have indulged in the silver craze and are shopping for accessory items such as sterling silver key rings, money clips, collar stays and belt buckles. Especially popular are pieces that celebrate a hobby or favorite sport. Luxe-looking sterling cigar, bar and desk accessories are also status collectibles.