Gold: Not Just a Thing of Fashion
They have been wearing them ages and ages ago, even long before they became civilized.
These are worn to indicate and to flaunt their particular station in the society.
People in the olden times wear ornaments made out of wood, stones, even of animal and human bones.
As knowledge of people increased, so did their taste and sense of fashion.
Some form of metals and precious stones came into the picture.
Having the technology needed, the metals were then designed to conform to the latest fad.
Precious metals like silver and gold as jewelries were mostly preferred because of their luster and color.
Wearing of these metals serves to place the wearer as a person of wealth and stature.
This is true even until today where those owning more jewelries made of gold are esteemed to be moneyed because of their worth.
More recent fashion trends however feature jewelries made of less valuable metals and stones.
Some are even using coral stones and other organic materials.
Some fashion experts see gold as unfashionable, preferring to use cheaper but more colorful materials as accessories.
Even well-to-do personalities tend to use fakes in place of genuine jewelry pieces for security reasons, aside from the fact that there are many less valuable trinkets that are more attractive than the expensive ones.
Jewelries as accessories have long wandered away from the expensive pieces in favor of the newest craze.
Real gems have been replaced by imitation jewels.
Although some ornaments still use precious stones and metals, more and more of them are conceived using semi-precious ones.
This is also because of the fact that costs of the real items have gone very high and those who can afford them are becoming scarce.
It can be said that buying jewelries made of precious metals and stones have already become a luxury to a lot of people and is no longer practical.
In this time of financial crisis, almost everybody has limited their purchases to essential things and forgoing those that could just be considered caprices.
Nevertheless, there are still those who realize that buying ornaments made of gold, silver and precious stones is also some form of investment.
They may be seen as a luxury at the time of acquiring them but if we take into account the reality that they are enduring things that will never devalue, they are in truth a nest egg you could benefit from someday.
Indeed, with the current sorry state of global economy, those who have knowingly or unknowingly invested in authentic gold, silver and precious gems as trinkets and collection, already have the opportunity of gaining more than what they earlier spent.