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

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

How to choose a chain size for a man?

Note the size of the col­lar in his shirts worn by the recip­i­ent. 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 slight­ly under the neck with­out caus­ing dis­com­fort.

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

In addi­tion, how to choose the length of a chain for a man, you should con­sid­er the width. When the chain is not very wide, but long, it can cre­ate the impres­sion of a female ver­sion. When choos­ing a longer ver­sion (from 50 cm), it is worth mak­ing sure that it has a width of at least 1.5 mm, so that the opti­cal pro­por­tions do not affect the appear­ance of the weav­ing. This prin­ci­ple also works in reverse. A short chain for a per­son with a small height will be too wide, it looks unaes­thet­ic. In this sit­u­a­tion, a nar­row­er option of medi­um length is bet­ter. This will avoid incon­sis­ten­cies and incon­sis­ten­cies.

What weaving chain is better to choose for a man?

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

Choose a mas­sive volu­mi­nous chain that goes well with a man’s style and strong char­ac­ter. Here are the most com­mon men’s braids.

• Armored — con­sists of inter­con­nect­ed indi­vid­ual flat­tened links on the sides. Thanks to this, it is very strong. It resem­bles impact-resis­tant armor. The tra­di­tion­al shell has many ver­sions. The links can have pat­terns on the sides, they can be sharp­ened and beau­ti­ful­ly reflect light, 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 have a rec­tan­gu­lar or square shape with an oval hole in the cen­ter.

• Figaro con­sists of two or three small links inter­twined with one large, more elon­gat­ed one. The links can be flat­tened and pol­ished on the sides. The name of this weav­ing comes from the name of the main char­ac­ter of the opera “The Mar­riage of Figaro”. He wore a chain with this weave. It was in 1786 that chain weav­ing was called Figaro weav­ing. At first it was pop­u­lar in Italy, but over time its pop­u­lar­i­ty spread all over the world. Cur­rent­ly, it is pro­duced seri­al­ly by all jew­el­ers.

• Byzan­tine weav­ing is made of cells con­nect­ed to each oth­er in a spe­cial way. Each link pass­es through the next four.

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

• Ball weav­ing con­sists of balls that look as if they are stretched on a string with equal inter­vals between them. Today, this type is pro­duced in many vari­ants. 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 dri­ve shaft 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. The gim­bal con­sists of elon­gat­ed mod­ules con­nect­ed by trans­verse joints. There are dif­fer­ent com­bi­na­tions of this weav­ing. Chains can have a round, octag­o­nal, square cross-sec­tion.

• Sin­ga­pore is a spa­tial inter­weav­ing 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.

• Anker in Eng­lish means anchor. Chain links are usu­al­ly oval, but oth­er vari­a­tions can also be found. The pecu­liar­i­ty 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 is slen­der 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. Weav­ing with Bis­mar­ck is very inter­est­ing and looks inter­est­ing in dif­fer­ent col­or com­bi­na­tions, for exam­ple, in gold and sil­ver rows with inter­spersed changes. Dou­ble, triple and even quadru­ple weaves are pro­duced.

• Pop­corn — grouped balls that resem­ble puffed pop­corn. They make dif­fer­ent designs and thick­ness­es of chains with this type of weav­ing.

• 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, and oth­ers sur­round­ing them have a larg­er radius.

• Cord in Eng­lish means “cord” — rich dec­o­ra­tive weav­ing with emp­ty 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 have a round or com­plete­ly square cross-sec­tion.

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

There are also Guc­ci, fox tail, mesh, bone, Prince of Wales, her­ring­bone (her­ring­bone), Kore­an, Belch­er, Shamir.

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

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

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