The Lab Gem Supplier

Jewelry trends often mimic fashion trends. In your grandmother’s day, women favored jewelry “suites.” These matching sets included necklaces, bracelets, earrings, rings, brooches and sometimes hair combs in identical settings and gems. Repeating the same pattern at throat, wrist and ear was a much admired classic look.

Matching was still popular in your mother’s day. Women’s wardrobes were filled with matching shoes and purses in black, brown, white, gray, navy. Wearing brown shoes with a navy purse simply wasn’t done. Jewelry was chosen to match the colors in one’s outfit. The avant garde may have chosen complementary colors for their jewelry, but wearing jewelry in a contrasting color was considered a stylistic faux pas. While few could afford jewelry suites, wearing a necklace with matching earrings or a matching bracelet was still considered high fashion.

Then came the ’60s and everything changed, including jewelry. Matching was out. Wild color combinations were in. Contrasting colors were the rage. Real gems if you had any were kept locked in a drawer. Jewelry was big and  bright, colorful, even gaudy. Affordable costume jewelry captured the spotlight.

Today, things have toned down and women can enjoy both worlds when making their jewelry selections. The introduction of cubic zirconia and lab created gems has brought the elegant look and sparkle of diamonds and natural gems down from the social stratosphere and placed it within reach of the average consumer. Visually indistinguishable from their natural counterparts, glimmering cubic zirconia offer the same brilliant clarity of diamonds, can be cut in both traditional and fancy shapes, and have the advantage of being able from CZ wholesalers like PehnecGems in a wide range of gorgeous colors.

Using cubic zirconia today’s jewelers mix metals and CZ gem colors to create jewelry as unique as their customers. Women today are more apt to wear a mixture of jewelry colors and styles than matching sets. Unusual and often contrasting color combinations are popular. Metal settings are used to pull together colorful combinations of CZ gems, the gold or silver connecting a single color at the ear with multiple CZ gems in a large brooch or stunning pendant.

The large selection of cubic zirconia colors and sizes available at PehnecGems allows jewelers to indulge their creativity. Visit our website at www.pehnec.com/ to view our complete selection of wholesale loose CZ.