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Fashion Collection - 6

 

 

Origin of Jewelry

 

In scientists opinion mankind came to existence in the earth before some two million years back. They are now far ahead in consideration of invention, which they did simply to meet up their needs. The beauty of nature prompted them to beautify themselves. Love for beauty and desire to look beautiful to one another encouraged them to invent beautifying materials called ‘jewelry’. Such is the assumption about invention of jewelry.

 

At the very outset of civilization ornaments were not made of metals like what we do today. Those were collected from nature. Flowers, feathers of birds, bones of various animals, stones, oyster shells, leaves, wild fruit, barks of trees etc. were used as ornaments.

 

People irrespective of males and females used those for beautification. Still these type of natural ornaments are noticed to be used among the tribal people of Asia and Africa.

 

 

We find colorful description of use of Jewelry of gods in ‘Bed’ the religious book of Hindu race. Varieties of metals and stones were used by gods and goddesses as ornaments.

 

In Ramayana it is described that in her wedding ceremony Seeta wore a saree as red as blood. Her whole body was decorated with ornaments of gold.

 

There was a variety in jewelry from the 1st to the 7th century, which depicts a picture of additional taste of people of that age.

 

In the sculptures of kanarak Surya Mondir of the 13th century we find an account of women of complex and acute art of Jewelry.

 

In the description of tourist Manuchi a description of the ornaments of the women of the Daccan is found. They used to wear necklaces and jewels. Women in the Royal Palace in Mughal regime used to wear necklaces of pearl, bangles in ankles, and various types of ornaments. They wore pearl even with the laces of trousers.

 

There was habit of wearing ornaments in the oldest civilization of Egypt. Faraw Emperors used to wear ornaments of rich art. Greeks were expert goldsmiths. They brought a remarkable change in jewelry art.

 

In Renaissance age a great change in Jewelry industry was made.

 

Gradually gold became the best demand for ornamental purpose, which exists until today. Because of shortage of gold availability, a culture of making artistic ornaments with less quantity of gold flourished. Thus came the idea of artistic designs in ornaments.

 

Jewelry industry is flourishing fast in our country. Acute art of ornaments of our industries are praiseworthy. After liberation, import of foreign Jewelry increased by dint of development of communication means.

 

 

Ornaments of New Bride

 

New bride and Jewelry are parts and parcels of each other. We cannot think of wedding without ornaments for the bride. It   is not essential to embellish a bride with thick ornaments. Rather thin ones will do. Nevertheless people are habituated to arrange thick ornaments for new bride, as those ornaments will remain as her wealth for the days to come. In ancient times it was a trend to decorate a bride from top to toe. This trend is gone. Now-a- days brides wear ornaments only in the heads, ears, noses and hands.

 

About wedding ornaments we have to think in a different way. They are different in design. Sometimes readymade package wedding ornaments are available in jewelry shops. You can buy either the set or any single part.  Similarities are found among package sets. So to avoid similarities you can order specially.

 

To embellish a bride you can include following types of ornaments--bangles in wrists, gold rings with pearls and diamonds in fingers, ear-rings, nose- rings etc. For neck you can choose necklace called ‘seeta har’  ‘moni har’ etc. For head, ornaments called ‘tiklee’ ‘taira’ etc. can be chosen, which will decorate a bride in the look of a queen. Hair-buns also can be decorated with various ornaments commonly used by Bangalee women.

 

There is no hard and fast shape of decoration of a bride. It varies from area to area and culture to culture. Try your sense of beauty in this connection. 

                


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