How to choose a chain for a man > How to choose weaving and chain length

This arti­cle will be use­ful to those who decide to choose a chain as a gift for a man. We will tell you what to con­sid­er when choos­ing this men’s acces­so­ry.

How to choose a chain size for a man?

Note the col­lar size on his shirts the recip­i­ent is wear­ing. The cir­cum­fer­ence of the neck depends on this para­me­ter, and it depends on the physique.

If the size of the col­lar is unknown, in order to under­stand what length of chain to choose for a man, you will have to mea­sure him or his neck with a cen­time­ter tape. But then there will be no sur­prise.

If a man is short with a cir­cum­fer­ence of less than 40 cm, a 45 cm long chain is enough for him. This option will fit a lit­tle under the neck with­out caus­ing dis­com­fort.

For tall men with a neck cir­cum­fer­ence of about 45 cm, a length of 55 cm or more is suit­able (depend­ing on indi­vid­ual pref­er­ences).

In addi­tion, how to choose the length of the chain for a man, it is worth con­sid­er­ing the width. When the chain is not very wide, but long, it may give the impres­sion of a female ver­sion. When choos­ing a longer ver­sion (from 50 cm), you should make sure that it has a width of at least 1.5 mm so that the opti­cal pro­por­tions do not affect the appear­ance of the weave. This prin­ci­ple also works in reverse. A short chain for a per­son with small stature will be too wide, it looks unaes­thet­ic. In this sit­u­a­tion, a nar­row­er ver­sion of medi­um length is prefer­able. This will avoid dis­pro­por­tion and incon­sis­ten­cy.

What kind of chain weaving is better to choose for a man?

Weav­ing is a dif­fer­ent form of links and the type of their con­nec­tion. Some of the chains may look overt­ly fem­i­nine due to the fine mesh struc­ture.

Choose a mas­sive bulky chain that goes well with mas­cu­line style and strong char­ac­ter. Here are the most com­mon men’s weaves.

• Armored — con­sists of inter­con­nect­ed sep­a­rate flat­tened links on the sides. Because of this, it is very durable. It resem­bles shock­proof armor. The tra­di­tion­al shell has many ver­sions. Links can have pat­terns on the sides, they can be sharp­ened and reflect light nice­ly, they can be black in the curves and the top lay­er is dull. The chain can be dou­ble, that is, two links are con­nect­ed to each oth­er, cre­at­ing a more com­pact weave. Links can also be rec­tan­gu­lar or square with an oval hole in the cen­ter.

• Figaro con­sists of two or three small links inter­twined with one larg­er, more elon­gat­ed one. Links can be flat­tened and sand­ed on the sides. The name of this weav­ing comes from the name of the pro­tag­o­nist of the opera The Mar­riage of Figaro. He wore a chain with this weav­ing. It was in 1786 that the weav­ing of the chain was called the weav­ing of Figaro. He was ini­tial­ly pop­u­lar in Italy, but over time his fame spread through­out the world. Cur­rent­ly, it is mass-pro­duced by all jew­el­ers.

• Byzan­tine weav­ing is made of cells inter­con­nect­ed in a spe­cial way. Each link goes through the next four.

• Eng­lish snake — a chain with a cross sec­tion — from round and square to five- and octag­o­nal. It resem­bles a snake, because it con­sists of mod­ules that are locat­ed close to each oth­er.

• Ball weav­ing is made up of balls that look like they are stretched on a string with equal spac­ing between them. Today, this type is avail­able in many vari­eties. Instead of balls, there can be links in the form of cylin­ders, eggs or long rec­tan­gles. Chains are made from very thin up to 1 mm to very thick 6–7 mm.

• Car­dano comes from the car­dan shaft, which is used to trans­fer dri­ve from the gear­box to the wheel. It was invent­ed by a math­e­mati­cian, physi­cian, mechan­ic and astrologer named Car­dano who lived about 500 years ago. Car­dano con­sists of elon­gat­ed mod­ules con­nect­ed by trans­verse con­nec­tions. There are var­i­ous com­bi­na­tions of this weav­ing. Chains can be round, octag­o­nal, square.

• Sin­ga­pu­ra is a spa­tial weave that resem­bles the struc­ture of DNA. The links are not flat, but each one is slight­ly twist­ed at a right angle, so the whole chain is twist­ed.

• Anchor in Eng­lish means anchor. Chain links are usu­al­ly oval, but oth­er vari­a­tions can also be found. A fea­ture of this weav­ing is that one link in the mid­dle con­nects the next two, which are locat­ed at an angle of 90 degrees to each oth­er.

• Bis­mar­ck are thin rows of oval links that run par­al­lel to each oth­er and are con­nect­ed to each oth­er. The chain is named after the iron Otto Bis­mar­ck, the first Chan­cel­lor of the Unit­ed Ger­man Empire. He liked to wear chains. Bis­mar­ck weav­ing is very inter­est­ing and looks inter­est­ing in var­i­ous col­or com­bi­na­tions, for exam­ple in gold and sil­ver rows with inter­spersed changes. They pro­duce dou­ble, triple and even quadru­ple weaves.

• Pop­corn — grouped balls that resem­ble puffed up pop­corn. Var­i­ous designs and thick­ness­es of chains with this type of weav­ing are made.

• Non­na in Latin means “9th”. This is a more com­plex scheme than an anchor, because it con­sists of two types of links. Some have a small­er radius, while oth­ers sur­round­ing them have a larg­er one.

• Kord in trans­la­tion from Eng­lish means “cord” — rich dec­o­ra­tive weav­ing with hol­low links. It is usu­al­ly worn as an inde­pen­dent dec­o­ra­tion, with­out pen­dants.

• Spi­ga — “ear” in Ital­ian It con­sists of eight-shaped cells. Depend­ing on the shape of the indi­vid­ual links, the chain can be round or com­plete­ly square.

These are just a few options for which chain weav­ing for a man to choose.

There is also Guc­ci, fox tail, mesh, ankle, Prince of Wales, fish bones (her­ring­bone), Kore­an, belch­er, shamir.

How to choose a chain for a man — with or without a pendant?

It depends on whether the chain will be worn as a sep­a­rate piece of jew­el­ry or as a set with a pen­dant. This is very impor­tant because of the opti­cal pro­por­tions, which should not be out of tune. There are sit­u­a­tions when a pen­dant is added to a rel­a­tive­ly short chain. Then he will not look too ele­gant, cre­at­ing a short col­lar under the man’s neck.

Here are the main tips on how to choose a chain for a man. They will help you make the right choice from the Sil­vers online store cat­a­log.