Current Fashion Trends in Costume Jewelry
Bold Designs Dominate Fashion Jewelry
The high fashion look is popular in necklaces, earrings, and bracelets with natural components contributing to the designs. Wood is continuing its second season of popularity. But the rising star in natural materials is gemstone, which provides the beauty of natural semiprecious stones to the costume jewelry designs. This will definitely continue and accelerate in the spring line. Also popular in neckwear are 48 inch and 60 inch ropes that are worn extended or doubled.
Traditional Costume Jewelry and Accessories
Jewelry, earring and bracelets have an appeal that goes beyond fashion alone. In addition traditional rhyme stones, bridal jewelry, evening bags, and formal gloves have a classic look with timeless appeal. There is a major market for these items that will be present even as fashion changes.
Accessory Trends
Buttons are very big in all accessories, especially in handbags and evening bags. The looks of the larger bags introduced by leading designers are the trendy styles of the season. Sunglasses are definitely big and bold with aviators the runaway favorite. Retro looks are also excellent and colored frames with matching lenses are very popular.
Hats are an important part of the market. Ladies hats the dominant player, this look very traditional. Casual hats, however, account for the major share of the market and no design in 2005 is more important than the rollup cowboy hat. It becomes an important fashion statement. . After cowboy hats, the three most fashionable designs are wide brim floppy hats, ladies fedoras, and newsboys. The entertainment field has played a major roll in popularizing these designs and the fashions looks continue into the fall season with felt, leather, and wool.
