Gold Jewelry

[willowtree99]

One thing I've noticed over the last few decades is fewer women wearing gold jewelry.

Im not talking high fashion, celebs and catwalk, but ordinary people.

All the women I knew of my granny's age always wore chunky wedding rings, engagement and other dress rings as well as solid earrings, young women would have gold necklaces and earring as gifts for special birthdays.

Now the fashion for wedding rings is slim, you rarely see women in public wearing gold.

Is it a trend thing, that gold is old fashioned/crass, a safety thing where women are worried about wearing valuables in public, a finances thing that gold is more expensive now and money is tighter?

Or am I just in different circles and gold is as popular as ever?

Yabu - gold is as popular as ever
Yanbu - I've noticed this too.

Eh? Gold is really in fashion now. My young adult DDs only wear gold- even if it is gold vermeil or rolled gold. My older DD in particular is a very classy dresser. Gold went out of fashion about 30 years ago, but it’s back now big time and has been for a few years.

Platinum went through a really trendy phase back when my friends and I were getting engaged (20 years ago). I am mid 40s now. Everyone has platinum (or white gold).

I don’t like it. It doesn’t suit me and I think it’s of a certain era now. My jewellery is all yellow gold and I like it much more. It has a much more classic look.

I think it's different these days. I wear a gold wedding & engagement ring. Other than that I have 15 ear piercings, most of which have white gold jewellery in (the rest are waiting until I can afford to upgrade!). So overall still quite a lot of gold but not as noticable.

The price of gold is very high at the moment. Although second hand jewelry is often only worth the scrap value, that value may surprise you.

Two years ago I inherited some gold jewelry including a sovereign which had been mounted to wear as a pendant. I would never wear anything like that although I sometimes do wear yellow gold. The resale value back then was around £500, today I would get closer to £700. I still have it along with a fair amount of other 22ct gold. I was going to get it all melted down and made into a cuff but I find 22ct to be too bright.

The watch I received for my 50th (6 years ago) has almost doubled in value purely down to the increase in the value of gold.

All of those so called ‘chavs’ walking around with their sovereigns, clown pendants and signet rings are quids in. Well done to them I say.

I still have it along with a fair amount of other 22ct gold. I was going to get it all melted down and made into a cuff but I find 22ct to be too bright.

It's very easy to alloy it down to 18ct or lower if you want a less bright gold. It'll also go a lot further that way

The trouble with platinum is that it looks like silver. I know it is rarer than gold, but for me, that doesn't make up for it looking cheapskate.

I'm on my second marriage so have two engagement rings, both have gold bands.

Sorry no it doesn’t. Especially if you actually know what your looking at 😉

Platinum looks tinny and cold .Much prefer the look of good quality silver jewellery to platinum or gold.

I also think I can distinguish between platinum, white gold and silver by sight.

I like them all, and I love engagement ring. But IMO nothing beats the centuries old appeal of a plain gold wedding band. Chavvy, ha.

Edit …. and I love my engagement ring. …

Yellow gold has been coming back into vogue and rose gold has been everywhere for at least a decade.

I think a lot of white skinned Brits are bit corned beefy untanned, I certainly am unfortunately, and gold looks awful on me so I’m a platinum, steel and silver person. I have bought a little yellow gold recently to wear with camel and cream clothes and I can get away with it with makeup. My default will always have to be white metals though.

I almost always wear gold or rose gold (usually vermeil or plated), as it suits me much better - I am also a redhead, like posters above. My wedding and engagements rings are platinum though (what I wanted at the time - I am just about a millennial at 43 - I got married in my mid 20’s).

That sounds lovely - I have always envied people with auburn/red/chestnut hair. I'm a brunette, now half grey.

I’m 37 and all my jewellery is yellow gold. I just like it better than the colder-toned metals, and I especially dislike white gold because you have to have it recoated.

However, I am the only person I know in my age group who has yellow gold jewellery. Everyone else wears white gold. I just love the look of it, and it goes so well with the colours I wear most. I’m a deep autumn so it works well for me.

All my life people have said this…and yet I would have done ANYTHING as a child/teen to have any hair colour except my own. It was brutal!!

Love it now, but I was probably in my thirties until I stopped dying it brown!

Yes, mine was dyed blonde for years and years - I look back at the photos and it really doesn’t suit me - makes my skin look pink and completely drowns out my green eyes. Took me a long time to embrace it and wish I had done it earlier.

With the rise of internet culture, we are all familiar with verbalised envious attacks, people hide their wealth, so as to side step sneering attacks from people with less money.
Combined with ‘gangsta’ culture, where drug dealing allows unpleasant people to be draped in gold chains, the appeal of gold jewellery is entirely lost.

We have Welsh white gold wedding rings bought at the same time different designs and they are slowly going yellow - aging with the marriage- they are in between at the moment but the same colour as each other’s. We think it’s quite sweet actually

As I said above, the Royal Family would be surprised to hear this as the women mostly wear plain gold wedding bands. So do the (few) aristo women I know, however elaborate their engagement rings (not worn on a daily basis) may be.

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I wear real gold earrings and bracelets.Love the look of gold and it suits my colouring.

I prefer silver I just think it looks nicer

I wear both! 😵‍💫 my wedding and engagement ring are platinum, the necklace I wear everyday is yellow gold.

My nieces only wear yellow gold. It’s very much back in trend and fashionable rn. The eldest got engaged at Christmas and her ring is gold.

Silver, white gold and platinum were more popular, esp for wedding and engagement rings, in the early 2000s.

I’ve never worn gold - never liked it.

I have yellow gold wedding and engagement rings because I wanted to be traditional, but any other jewelry was always silver because I thought it suited me better. But last year my husband wanted to buy me something nice for my 50th, and both he and the jewelry shop salesperson said gold suited me much better than silver, so we went with gold. I have a classic Scottish complexion - milk white, doesn't tan, reddish brown hair (although mostly grey now!).