Almost every girl owns or covets a charm bracelet. There’s something very personal about this piece of jewellery, which definitely appeals to the sentimental side of all women. Worn around the wrist, it carries detachable little trinkets that represent something important to the wearer’s life. Its beauty and uniqueness lies in the fact that every charm bracelet looks and signifies something different for everyone.
There’s a reason why these pendant-like jewellery are called “charms”—they were once worn as amulets to ward off evil. There’s evidence that charms made from animal bones, shells, mammoth tusks and clay were worn more than 30, 00 years ago. Then in ancient Egypt and Rome, charms were worn as symbols of luck and faith, and also for identification purposes.
It was Queen Victoria who started the fashion of wearing charm bracelets as jewellery, and it soon became a trend amongst European nobles. Then its popularity soared after World War II, as home-coming soldiers brought handmade trinkets home to their loved ones.
There are actually many kinds of charm bracelets available today. The most popular ones are the Traditional, the European, and the Italian styles. The traditional ones are the most often-seen ones: the bracelet is often a chain link, and dangling charms are hooked onto these links. European charms are beaded rather than hooked and dangled. Made of anything from silver to Murano glass, these rounded charms are beaded with a sturdy, rope-like chain, and you can wear as many charms as your wrist allows. The Italian charm bracelet consists of a series of individual, modular links that are hooked onto one another around a stretchy band. Each of these flat, standard-sized links features a charm that has been soldered onto it.
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