The Origins of Costume Jewellery

Also unlike real jewellery, costume jewellery was/is therefore often made with more inexpensive materials and stones, such as base metals, glass, plastic, and synthetics, instead of real diamonds and rarer metals. Most people would recognise costume jewellery as that which originates from the early 20th century to the 1940s or 50s, including the lavish necklaces, bracelets, and especially the copious amounts of clip on earrings (since pierced ears were, in fact, considered uncivilised in bygone generations) with a myriad of lush styles in pearl clip on earrings, semi-precious gemstone clip on earrings, Swarovski crystal clip on earrings, and on and on.Fashion jewellery, junk jewellery, fake jewellery, fallalery—all these are different terms for what is commonly known as ;costume jewellery.; Costume jewellery is essentially jewellery that is made specifically to match or complement a specific outfit (or ;costume; as nice outfits used to be known as) as opposed to real jewellery which was made and designed unto itself without regard for what it would ;match.;