Names and types of jewelry on the neck > What are the names of chains and necklaces

A styl­ish addi­tion to almost any look — a dec­o­ra­tion for the female neck and décol­leté. It adds charm and ele­gance to any look. This item is a great gift for any occa­sion. But in order to choose it cor­rect­ly, you need to know how this or that dec­o­ra­tion on the neck is cor­rect­ly called.

Why, when choosing, it is necessary to take into account not only the names of jewelry on the neck, but also their purpose?

Man­u­fac­tur­ers dis­tin­guish between types of neck jew­el­ry accord­ing to dif­fer­ent cri­te­ria. Most often they are divid­ed by length, tech­nique of exe­cu­tion or raw mate­ri­als from which they are made. Depend­ing on the length, these acces­sories have their own name. This helps them to choose accord­ing to the occa­sion of their wear­ing and style of cloth­ing. We will describe in more detail about each type of wom­en’s neck jew­el­ry below. After all, prop­er­ly select­ed acces­sories can expres­sive­ly empha­size not only the beau­ty of its own­er, but also her out­fit. How­ev­er, it is not enough to know the name of a spe­cif­ic mod­el of neck jew­el­ry; you need to take into account its pur­pose and rea­son for wear­ing it.

1. Necklace

This cat­e­go­ry up to 30 cm long includes such types of wom­en’s and men’s neck jew­el­ry as:

• gold and sil­ver chain with a pen­dant;
• braid­ed neck­lace adorned with pre­cious stones or cubic zir­co­nia. It forms a sin­gle whole with oth­er acces­sories;
• pearl thread.

2. Necklace

Despite the short length — up to 35 cm, this is a proven clas­sic, ide­al for large events and par­ties. Designed for slen­der peo­ple with a long neck, it empha­sizes the slen­der oval of the face and goes well with a wide neck­line and a dress that opens the shoul­ders. Not suit­able for women with a short and wide neck, because it visu­al­ly short­ens it.

In most cas­es, the neck­lace is com­ple­ment­ed with pearls or pre­cious stones. It can be worn on its own, worn strict­ly with­out acces­sories or in a jew­el­ry set con­sist­ing of a ring, ear­rings and bracelets with the same ele­ments.

3. Choker

This is a fash­ion trend of the 90s, which has recent­ly returned to world trends. The length of the chok­er is from 36 to 41 cm. It should fit freely around the neck.

Such acces­sories are for women with a thin neck and sharp fea­tures. They are suit­able for any occa­sion and go well with any out­fit, with the excep­tion of the turtle­neck, which com­plete­ly cov­ers the neck and décol­leté. Best of all, a chok­er, dec­o­rat­ed with a sol­id stone, pen­dant or medal­lion, looks with a del­i­cate semi­cir­cu­lar neck­line.

4. Princess

This is the most pop­u­lar type of neck­lace and the most famous name for wom­en’s neck jew­el­ry. Since its length is 43–55 cm, it suits every woman, regard­less of her age, body shape, pos­ture and neck size. Princess neck­laces use dif­fer­ent types of pen­dants around the neck, which per­fect­ly accen­tu­ate any neck­line. This ele­gant and clas­sic length is per­fect for any occa­sion. It does not draw too much atten­tion to the décol­leté or the neck, but dec­o­rates the image.

The princess looks beau­ti­ful with a V‑neck sweater or an unbut­toned shirt blouse. If there are pre­cious stones in the dec­o­ra­tion of this prod­uct, it will become a bright addi­tion to any evening or for­mal attire.

5. Matinee

This is a neck­lace designed specif­i­cal­ly to draw atten­tion to the female bust. Trans­lat­ed from French, the name of this dec­o­ra­tion on the neck means “mati­nee”. Its length ranges from 50 to 60 cm. Thanks to this, it grace­ful­ly falls on the neck­line and ends at the lev­el of the upper bust line. It looks best when this neck­line is very deep. Against this back­ground, it is impos­si­ble not to notice the mat­iné, but togeth­er with the pat­tern and lace, it merges.

6. Opera

This is the name of a chic long neck­lace (75–90 cm), falling below the bust. Its name sug­gests that the length is ele­gant and per­fect for appro­pri­ate occa­sions. Tra­di­tion­al­ly, it is worn with a long evening dress with a deep neck­line. Espe­cial­ly it goes to women with large breasts and a round face. Despite the fact that it falls below the low­er line of the bust, it per­fect­ly empha­sizes it.

7. Lauriat

The longest of all options is over 120 cm. Coco Chanel’s favorite type of jew­el­ry. She wore it in dif­fer­ent ways — wrapped around her neck three times or tied in knots or braids. Depend­ing on the exe­cu­tion, it cor­re­sponds to the style of glam­our, boho or casu­al.

The main advan­tage of lavri­at is that it is ide­al for any fig­ure and age. Short­er cords are brought to the navel line, the longest ones can be braid­ed sev­er­al times around the neck. This neck­lace should be in every wom­an’s jew­el­ry box. It makes it pos­si­ble to empha­size the dig­ni­ty of the fig­ure and hide the flaws.

8. Pendant

This is the name of not only pen­dants with a stone in the frame, but also chains around the neck. They are avail­able in any length and design. They can be sin­gle or mul­ti-row.

Fas­tened with a loop or tie. One of the pop­u­lar types of pen­dants is the medal­lion. You can put a pho­to of your loved one in it. In the same cat­e­go­ry, design­ers include a set of two neck­laces with dou­ble heart-shaped pen­dants, which can be worn by two loved ones to empha­size their feel­ings and affec­tion for each oth­er.

They look sim­ple, ele­gant and very easy to per­son­al­ize, mak­ing them a great gift.

9. Sotoire

This is the name of a neck­lace around the neck in the form of a thread of stones or chains with a mas­sive pen­dant, a tas­sel or a sin­gle detach­able pen­dant, sautior is trans­lat­ed from French as a rope

This acces­so­ry looks very dec­o­ra­tive and impres­sive. It can be wrapped around the neck, worn as a short­er neck­lace, and even as a bracelet. One of the most famous neck­laces of this type is the sautoir of the French Queen Mary. The Roman­ian monarch wore a sim­i­lar beau­ti­ful neck­lace topped with a deep-col­ored sap­phire.

This type of neck­lace is usu­al­ly the length of a lar­i­at or opera neck­lace. Most often it is made from nat­ur­al beads or pearls.

10. Multi-row or stranded necklace

These are gar­lands dec­o­rat­ed with a cas­cade of chains that fall down to form an intri­cate pat­tern. Usu­al­ly these short neck­laces have a rich­ly dec­o­rat­ed cen­ter piece. They are often found in both Vic­to­ri­an and Art Nou­veau styles. These are sev­er­al strands of chains with stones or pearls con­nect­ed by one clasp. Most often, it cor­re­sponds to the length of a chok­er or princess.

11. Graduated necklace

Grad­u­at­ed is a female neck dec­o­ra­tion made of stones of both large and small sizes. The clos­er to the clasp, the small­er the stones. The largest orna­ment or pen­dant is in the mid­dle of the neck­lace.

12. Scalloped necklace

A scal­lop is a sump­tu­ous, impres­sive neck pen­dant with a struc­ture con­sist­ing of a chok­er-sized main chain with dec­o­ra­tions and small­er chains con­nect­ed to it. This acces­so­ry goes best with an off-the-shoul­der evening dress.

13. Plastron

A word that has many dif­fer­ent mean­ings. In the con­text of jew­el­ry, this is the name of a mas­sive bracelet around the neck, made of a large stone or met­al plate. Lighter options are made from wood or acrylic.

This large ele­ment is often sur­round­ed by small­er dec­o­ra­tions. The most com­mon mod­els of plas­trons are made using the soutache tech­nique. Such a neck­lace is a loud acces­so­ry that looks good in any sit­u­a­tion, but then the neck and shoul­ders should be open.

14. Riviere

Neck dec­o­ra­tion, which con­sists of only one type of pre­cious stones. Each stone is in a sep­a­rate set­ting.

15. Negligee

This is an old name for a thin chain around the neck with sev­er­al asym­met­ri­cal drop or fringe pen­dants that look like a pen­dant. Ini­tial­ly, pen­dants were made of pre­cious mate­ri­als, but today they can be from thin met­al ele­ments to large wood­en and plas­tic beads.

16. Collar

Neck­laces of this type fit snug­ly to the body. They are short and mas­sive. Often the front of the struc­ture con­sists of a large piece of met­al tied with a chain. These acces­sories are per­fect for dress­es and shirts with a clas­sic col­lar or off-the-shoul­der out­fits.

16. Torsade

This is a short, mas­sive and heavy acces­so­ry, con­sist­ing of sev­er­al strands of beads, which are twist­ed and con­nect­ed with one clasp. It looks good on ladies with large breasts. Beau­ti­ful­ly fit­ting the neck, empha­sizes the décol­leté. Since this option is not for every­one, in Italy a more gen­tle ver­sion of it was invent­ed — bayadare. It con­tains strings of very small beads, which, twist­ing togeth­er, form a more volu­mi­nous struc­ture.

17. Slaves

This is a flat neck­lace 30–35 cm long, which fits snug­ly around the neck, like a col­lar or tight col­lar.

18. Zipper

Thread or chain that fas­tens in front. Its main ele­ment is the clasp. Most often it is made of the largest stone.

19. Squalage

Like a chok­er, this neck­lace hugs the neck tight­ly, and a band adorned with stones hangs down the cen­ter of the chest.

20. Monisto

Antique beads, con­sist­ing of sev­er­al laces or chains, on which 2–3 corals, 6–12 coins, pearls, amber and oth­er stones are strung in a cer­tain order. The larg­er the stones and the more expen­sive the coins, the rich­er the own­er was con­sid­ered.

When choos­ing jew­el­ry for the neck in our cat­a­log, you should be guid­ed by the pro­por­tions of your body. The larg­er the sil­hou­ette, the more expres­sive the acces­so­ry should be. Long neck­laces make the upper body slim­mer while draw­ing atten­tion to the low­er tor­so. Small ones can be lost against the back­ground of bright clothes, and hor­i­zon­tal stripes visu­al­ly expand the fig­ure.

You can find data and oth­er dec­o­ra­tions on the neck on the pages of the store Sil­vers.