Indian Accessories

Costume jewelry has attained a significant role in the lives of modern women. Only very few Indian women now prefer to decorate themselves with costly heavy gold jewels. Still, for occasions like weddings in India, huge investments are made on gold ornaments.

Costume jewelry is an ornament made out of inexpensive materials ranging from plastic and glass to white metal, cheap alloys and fabric with resale value. Costume jewels have set a fashion trend and they are affordable even to the common man. No doubt, costume jewels bear an aesthetic look and women all over the world love to wear them.

Ever-increasing daytime robberies force the women to abstain from wearing expensive gold ornaments. Today’s too affordable costume jewelry, in various designs and colors offer an alternative to the costly ones. Ladies can select any piece matching to their outfits. They may not last long, but the frequent changing trends compel then to go for the latest styles. If the links are strong and the materials used is of a high quality the jewelry may last many years.

All the ornaments, including small and large earrings, nose rings, chains, necklaces, bangles, wrist bands, waist bands, finger rings, anklets and toe rings, all the jewel pieces with which a typical Indian lady adorns herself, are readily available in the costume shops in enchanted designs and radiant colors. Special mention is to be made to replicas of movie star gems and brooches and bracelets of multi-colored stones. Certain metallic jewelry might be plated with 18 or 22 carat gold minimum 7 times.

This jewelry could be made out of any kind of material available, namely, pure silver, sterling silver, beads, semi precious stones, glass, lac, metal, kundan,, bone, fabric etc. The various forms of cosmetic jewelry are antique, body, magnetic, glass, artificial, crystal, fashion, beaded and imitation jewelries.

Recently India has become a major producer of costume jewelry and a potential exporter of it. Since the main cost of this jewelry is involved in the skill and the labor this could be manufactured in India at a very low cost and consequently the exported goods could be sold at more competitive prices.