So you wonder what makes Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival, the best in the world? Well, here it is. You have to see it.
The City of Samba from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.
A heartfelt Thank You! to Keith Loutit and Jarbas Agnelli, it brought tears to my eyes. It is really beautiful!
A little hint:
What pulls an outfit better than a coordinated look? Don’t go running away – it is easier than it sounds. You can wear matching jewelry or you can wear coordinated jewelry. I love to coordinate instead of match. It is more fun and more personal. I’ll explain.
This is a matched set or demi parure in poured white glass and gold tone or plated metal.
Milk White Poured Glass Vintage Necklace and Earrings
It was designed and produced as an exact matching set. It is not signed but it has the feel of an early Coro or Trifari piece. Easy and looks great, but not really fun as you are wearing something another person decided would look great together and had it produced that way.
18k Gold Coral Necklace, Pre-ban Ivory and Coral 14k Gold Huggie Earrings and Pre-ban Ivory Antique Bangle.
Now look at how these three pieces look together. In this group are 18k Gold Coral Necklace, Pre-ban Ivory and Coral 14k Gold Huggie Earrings and Pre-ban Ivory Antique Bangle. Isn’t that much more fun?
The secret is in the earrings – they are the key piece that holds the look together, they tie in the bracelet and the necklace together. It’s Pret-a-Porter or separates for jewelry. It works the same way. The best is you can wear each of them with something else or by themselves as each piece holds it’s own. So pick a favorite piece, match color or style or shape. Find something in common with something else. Find something that looks good and most importantly, looks good on you. After all style is all about how it makes you feel, you need to be comfortable in it and it looks great.
18k Gold Large Round Coral Beads Necklace and 14k Gold and Pre Ban Ivory Huggie Hoop Earrings
Go look in you jewelry box – you probably have some coordinates already. It works for Costume Jewelry and works for Fine State Jewelry too. And you can be your own stylist!
There is a lot of confusion about the term “Vintage Jewelry” or “Vintage Jewellery”. Let me try to clarify this issue for you once and for all and give you the proper definition of this term plus a few others related to jewelry.
For a piece of jewelry to be authentic vintage it must be at least 20 years old. Some dealers and collectors classify vintage as 25 years or more. One cannot make “vintage jewelry” as it has to be at least that old. You can use vintage parts, beads and findings but that does not make your jewelry vintage as it does not make it old. If it is made today, it is new Contemporary Jewelry.
When defined as Vintage at our Vintage Jewelry Site, it means that piece is 20 years old or older. When you shop with us, if a piece is called Vintage it is authentic Vintage, at least 20 years old. For the current time frame, jewelry of the 1980s can be classified as Vintage as it falls between the 20 and 25 years old parameter. Jewelry from the 1990s or newer is not vintage yet.
Antique Jewelry must be 100 years or older. If it isn’t that old, than it is vintage, even if it looks older. If it is not 20 years or older than it is neither vintage nor antique.
If a piece of jewelry is a worthy piece but not 20 years old, than it is defined as pre-owned until it reaches the minimum threshold of 20 years of age to become Vintage.
Unfortunately, these terms are used, misused and over-used to describe many styles made today. That is not correct.
For Contemporary Jewelry with a vintage or antique flair, they should be described as vintage inspired jewelry, vintage style jewelry, antique inspired jewelry or antique style jewelry, even if parts of the jewelry made today are old.
The terms upcycled and recycled jewelry could apply to Contemporary Jewelry if the bulk of the piece is old. It requires that a complete (broken or not) old piece be used as the core for a new design. I would certainly hope that anyone making Upcycled Jewelry would use a broken old piece that cannot be repaired and not destroy a perfectly good old piece of jewelry to make something new, unless it can be easily reversed. I do use old hopelessly broken vintage and antique jewelry to create some of my new designs. I have seen several designs made today from perfectly good and quite valuable old jewelry. Some of these are sold at a lower price than the original older piece is worth!
I have been in the jewelry business for a long time, both as a designer and as dealer. I carry both Vintage and Antique Jewelry and sometimes use vintage and antique parts in my new contemporary jewelry.
Whatever definition is used in our jewelry site, rest assured we have invested lots of time researching and are absolutely positive of the authenticity of the jewelry being offered.
Hope this helps to clarify this issue!
