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2007 Costume Jewelry Summer Trends

Forget the bling and cheap plastics. Classic costume jewelry will be the rage for the Spring / Summer 2007. Gemstones, Murano styled glass, ceramics, crystal glass, shell are all coming into focus. There is even more in store this season pushing the fashion trends in costume jewelry past previous marks.

Costume Jewelry Designs

Necklace sets and long layered jewelry continue to be working well with new fashion designs. Traditional designs are remaining on the shelves and providing brisk sales.

Metal play a bigger part with spacing in long necklaces and long chain designs. But costume jewelry in a season that has something for everyone does not have to be long. Chokers and shorten necklaces offer hammered metals for a hand-made look and geometrics are good with circles being most important..

Round is a shape and geometrics and round shapes are approaching an old world look and feel with pendants, discs, metallic rings and gemstones. Concentric circles and loops are in the earrings and bracelets this year. There is a trend towards silver this season, but gold is holding it's own and tends to be climbing in overall popularity

Summertime 2007 Colors

Colors this season center around grey and white with sidelines of off-white, shades of sage, light browns. Caribbean brights in shades of peach, teal green, yellow, fuchsia and aqua green/blue.

Expect gemstone components to be unusually big this season in providing the season’s color palette in costume jewelry. Shell and wood will bring the natural colors to fashion jewelry. Add to this the ever-improving art of Murano style glass and glass crystal and the summer of 2007 will become a new benchmark in the beauty of classic jewelry.

Facets in Costume Jewelry Trends

Classic components are not the only trend in the diverse world of fashion. Denims will be huge impact on summer fashion and with them Southwest designer looks. Silver plating with a Southwest motif will enjoy popularity this summer in total metal designs or highlighted with simulated jet, turquoise, or coral.

Spring previews began with designers showing new lines dominated by floral designs. Accessories, especially brooches, will reflect the garden theme with blossoms, butterflies, lady bugs, and dragonflies.

Think Victorian this year. Classic looks from history will reflect on the trends this season. Retro and vintage designs will be fresh, with Victorian styles in jewelry and fashion. Cameos, filigree, antique plating will return. Historically, the Victorian era changed styles and fashion forever. Now we will be seeing some of it come back into our current trends in fashion.

Metals in necklaces and bracelets and engravings are hot already this year. The trend has already started and wholesalers are reporting that this season bracelets and necklaces with engraved sayings, such as verses, self-help phrases, words of wisdom and hope are nothing short of hot! hot! hot!

This season will continue a trend towards costume jewelry and will be a very good seller. No other kind of jewelry can provide the satisfaction to the trendy woman of the new millennium as fashion costume jewelry.

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