How and with what to wear necklaces > Choose and wear correctly

A neck­lace is a cult attribute that con­sists of beads strung on a wire, chain, fish­ing line or string. It is worn around the neck, waist or hips.

Such jew­el­ry is made in var­i­ous shapes and col­ors, with pre­cious stones, crys­tals, coins, flow­ers and var­i­ous tal­is­mans. In ancient times, it was orig­i­nal­ly worn by men — rulers of states, priests, and sol­diers. Only a few cen­turies ago, this prod­uct became fem­i­nine.

This arti­cle will talk about how to choose the right neck­laces, how to wear them and with which clothes it is best to com­bine them.

Why did people wear necklaces before?

African women have worn dec­o­ra­tive jew­el­ry on their waists and hips for thou­sands of years. Around the neck, the neck­lace began to be worn with dress­es in the coun­tries of Europe, Asia and Amer­i­ca. They were called not only an orna­ment, but a sym­bol of fem­i­nin­i­ty, fer­til­i­ty, well-being, and sen­su­al­i­ty. And they were also believed to per­form sev­er­al impor­tant func­tions, show­ing:

• devi­a­tions in weight and health prob­lems. Belts, ban­dages on and neck orna­ments were used to deter­mine changes in weight. They accu­rate­ly showed whether a per­son gained or lost weight. If a per­son has gained weight, has a bloat­ed stom­ach or enlarged lymph nodes on the neck, the beads will either be high­er or will fit tight­ly. If it has lost weight, it will cov­er the cir­cle freely or go down;
• matu­ri­ty. In those coun­tries of the world where wear­ing beads is a tra­di­tion, they are often asso­ci­at­ed with grow­ing up. When chil­dren were giv­en names, they were tra­di­tion­al­ly dec­o­rat­ed with sev­er­al beads around the waist and neck. Moth­ers put on their daugh­ters whole neck­laces after the first men­stru­a­tion. An increase in the num­ber of beads sym­bol­ized the onset of a new life stage. The jew­el­ry worn by a teenage girl will be dif­fer­ent from what she will wear after her wed­ding and the birth of her first child;
• fer­til­i­ty. Many women use hip beads to enhance their sen­su­al­i­ty. They are worn before sex to get preg­nant. Dur­ing peri­ods of fer­til­i­ty, African trib­al women wear long and large neck­laces with ele­ments such as tin­kling coins and bells to attract poten­tial suit­ors near­by. Some peo­ples wear waist and neck beads under their clothes. There are spe­cial charm neck­laces for expec­tant moth­ers;
• her­itage and pride. Wear­ing beads is a pop­u­lar way to express respect to one’s ances­tors, to empha­size the cus­toms and tra­di­tions of one’s peo­ple;
• train­ing. This acces­so­ry helps to improve your pos­ture. The neck­lace behaves dif­fer­ent­ly when a per­son is stand­ing, breath­ing, sit­ting. They remind you that you need to breathe cor­rect­ly, sit up straight, straight­en your back, tight­en your abs, straight­en your shoul­ders;
• mag­i­cal prop­er­ties. In many coun­tries of the world, women add tal­is­mans and amulets to a neck­lace. It is cus­tom­ary to apply aphro­disi­ac oils on them to seduce men or to pro­tect your­self from the evil eye and neg­a­tive ener­gy.

What women’s necklaces to choose and what to wear them with?

The most impor­tant thing when choos­ing such an acces­so­ry is indi­vid­ual pref­er­ences. It is made in a large num­ber of styles, col­ors and mate­ri­als.

Each col­or has a cer­tain mean­ing:

• blue: har­mo­ny, enlight­en­ment, truth;
• brown: sta­bil­i­ty, calm­ness;
• green: hope, abun­dance, heal­ing, pros­per­i­ty;
• pur­ple: pow­er, spir­i­tu­al­i­ty, wis­dom;
• red: self-con­fi­dence, love, pas­sion, courage;
• white: truth, puri­ty, light;
• yel­low: clar­i­ty, joy, aware­ness, ener­gy.

The col­or of the bead ele­ments is select­ed tak­ing into account the type of appear­ance. Black, red, white jew­el­ry is per­fect for brunettes with fair skin. Prod­ucts of del­i­cate shades are rec­om­mend­ed for women with dark skin. Brown-haired women and ladies with a warm shade of hair — amber and gold­en col­ors.

Full women with large breasts should avoid wear­ing mas­sive jew­el­ry. A thin neck can be dec­o­rat­ed with a dec­o­ra­tive col­lar made of beads.

Since it has become fash­ion­able to wear clothes in an eth­nic style again, the trend is for mod­els of red beads made of nat­ur­al mate­ri­als (wood, coral, amber, pearls), which go well with things made of den­im, nat­ur­al cot­ton, wool and linen.

With which stone to wear a necklace (photo)?

Each pre­cious stone has a spe­cif­ic effect:

• amber pro­tects against neg­a­tiv­i­ty;
• emer­ald pro­vides hap­pi­ness, pros­per­i­ty and wealth;
• turquoise pro­tects from evil and mis­for­tune;
• lapis lazuli is respon­si­ble for peace, truth and insight;
• pearls pro­mote puri­ty and trans­paren­cy in rela­tion­ships;
• rose quartz sup­ports feel­ings of love, com­pas­sion, accel­er­ates heal­ing.

How to properly wear necklaces on the neck?

It depends on their length:

• 30–33 cm — sev­er­al hor­i­zon­tal rows of bead­ed threads and cre­ate a wide rim that wraps tight­ly around the neck like a col­lar. What to wear this type of neck­lace with depends on the length of the col­lar, shirt, dress, blouse and the depth of the neck­line;
• 35–40 cm — a clas­sic ver­sion in the form of a sol­id thread that wraps around the neck above the col­lar­bones. Its main fea­ture is ver­sa­til­i­ty. It suits any neck­line and any style of cloth­ing;
• 40–50 cm — the most com­mon length of wom­en’s beads. They sit well and loose­ly on the neck and are com­bined with var­i­ous clothes, with the excep­tion of things with a high col­lar. Har­mo­nize with a sum­mer sun­dress and a dress with open shoul­ders;
• 42–48 cm — thread with sol­id beads, which is dec­o­rat­ed with a pen­dant. Thanks to the cor­rect oval shape, they are worn as a neck­lace. They are suit­able for women who can­not boast of a long or slen­der neck. They visu­al­ly length­en the neck if they are worn with dress­es with a boat neck­line or with a deep neck­line;
• 50–60 cm — it main­ly mono­chro­mat­ic black, white, gray or brown neck­laces that go well with any­thing. Start­ing from an office suit, evening and cock­tail dress and end­ing with a sum­mer sun­dress. The only thing that does not look good with them is clothes with but­tons, embroi­dery, appli­ca­tions and oth­er addi­tion­al dec­o­ra­tions;
• 55–70 cm — an acces­so­ry of medi­um length, the ele­ments of which end at chest height. But it is impor­tant that the bot­tom lay­er of beads does not touch the neck­line of the dress or blouse;
• 71–86 cm — neck­laces loose enough to wear over the head. Pre­vi­ous­ly, it was per­mis­si­ble to wear such jew­el­ry only at offi­cial events. The neck­lace, locat­ed just below the chest lev­el, opti­cal­ly length­ens the sil­hou­ette;
• 75–120 cm — neck­laces falling below the chest line. They can be worn over every­day clothes, twist­ed sev­er­al times or tied in a knot. They are best com­bined with long plain dress­es.

How to choose the right necklaces for a dress

The main selec­tion cri­te­ri­on is the age of the future own­er of the prod­uct. Almost the entire assort­ment of jew­el­ry is suit­able for teenage girls. There are no restric­tions on the length of beads for them. They can safe­ly wear a neck­lace not only on the neck, but also on the shoul­ders, on the waist, on the hips and use them as a bracelet.

Small pearl beads are suit­able for young girls, espe­cial­ly brides. They empha­size their youth, fem­i­nin­i­ty and sophis­ti­ca­tion of the out­fit.

Very short and very long neck­laces do not suit old­er women. The aver­age length is per­fect for them. Jew­el­ry with large stones or pen­dants can draw too much atten­tion to the appear­ance, so be care­ful when choos­ing a pen­dant with a stone.

A ver­sa­tile option is to wear a neck­lace with small stones both with a dress and with a blouse and shirt, twist it in sev­er­al rows or tie it with a knot.

Now you know how to choose neck jew­el­ry by length, col­or, how to wear a neck­lace and with what clothes to com­bine.

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