Quick Tips For Pairing Vintage and Contemporary Jewelry

The latest accessories trends all involve stacking and layering a variety of pieces, both old and new, together for a bold effect. To pull this style off with gusto, you have to make sure the combination isn’t overly busy, clashing or missing the mark some other way. Fortunately, there are only a few rules and plenty of room for creativity. Plus, this is definitely the way to go if you have a limited budget and can only afford one or two fine pieces of vintage jewelry but still love to wear inexpensive, playful decoration. To help you navigate this latest egalitarian fashion, here are some quick tips that will ensure you look great at every event.

Lux Look; Low Prices

Long Art Deco Diamond Ring

 To make an eye-catching statement without breaking the bank, your best bet is to choose one impressive piece of jewelry that is special and upscale, like a vintage cross pendant, and pair it with several charming yet cheap elements, such as plain gold or silver chains. This not only makes the elegant item look that much more entrancing, it’s the kind of high tide that lifts all boats. Meaning, even your simple, unadorned necklaces will seem of a higher quality just by being close to the one stunning ornament.

Opposite Attract

Vintage Diamond Cross Pendant in Rose Gold

What’s true about love also proves true with regards to material embellishment. Mixing and matching several different elements—as long as one feature remains the same throughout—can make a forcefully chic impact. That means you can combine a wide variety of bangle bracelets as long as they’re all white gold (or silver, if you must). Or, if you’re feeling adventurous, you can combine several pieces, each one sharing something in common with one other article.

Safety in Numbers

Art Deco Diamond Bangle Bracelet

Stacking is by far the most popular way to wear jewelry of the moment, and vintage and contemporary accessory pairing is the best way to show off this trend. Choose one or two elegantly ornate vintage-inspired rings and surround them in dainty, delicate and relatively plain accompaniments. The metals and styles don’t have to match necessarily, but make sure they’re tightly stacked and have some overriding theme.

The latest fad in jewelry suits everyone’s taste and everyone’s budget. A mix of high and low, elaborate and plain, helps make it one of the most wearable and fun styles in a long time. Even more encouraging, it allows women everywhere to take all their favorite pieces, both modern and antique, and wear them to any event. For more quick tips and inspiration, check out Ziva’s rose gold rings.

Fine Jewelry Based on Your Personality

Most people don’t take into consideration their individual quirks, characteristics and hobbies when buying a piece of jewelry, whether it’s a ring, necklace or pair of earrings. But that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t. Choosing a piece of jewelry based upon your personality means you can wear an emblem of who you are while improving your style and beauty every day. Announce your individuality to the world with a stylish gemstone pendant or glittering bangle bracelet. Here’s how to choose the right luxury accessory for you.

Sporty Tom Boy

Diamond Earrings with Bezel Setting

If you live a particularly active life and eschew overly feminine trappings, it’s in your best interest to wear jewelry that doesn’t ever get in the way of your many hobbies, whether they’re coding computer applications or scoring the deciding goal in the league soccer tournament. Simple, modern diamond stud earrings are the perfect option for you. They’re elegant, subtle and easy to wear.

Mingling Socialite

Rose Gold Diamonds by the Yard Necklace

Making friends is easy if you’re a socialite, and you often spend a fair amount of time choosing stylish clothes and presenting an attractive appearance. You probably want to get noticed in the best possible way. A sparkling personality deserves sparkling jewels, especially when they’re layered together for a unique effect. Try pairing a stunning architectural engraved ring with a flowing diamond necklace or wearing multiple bangle bracelets with glittering gemstones.

Senior Executive

Square Yellow Diamond Earrings

Being the boss definitely comes with a few perks. But it also requires that all your underlings respect and admire you. You can command both attention and envy by wearing a vintage-style diamond bracelet or a pair of rare yellow diamond drop earrings. The bracelet features dozens of small diamonds that catch the light while the golden yellow diamond earrings give you a warm yet impressive image.

Earth Goddess

Ruby Earrings With Halo

Easy going, outdoorsy and playful, nature lovers love spending time surrounded by trees, water and blue skies. And if you’re one, you’re probably also a huge fan of bright colors. Show that adoration for the full spectrum of the rainbow by sporting colorful gemstones on a pendant, sapphire right hand ring or pair of ruby earrings. These simple pieces of jewelry won’t limit mobility, so you can camp, climb and kayak without worrying about over-sized baubles getting in the way.

If you normally purchase jewelry because you like the style or color of gemstone or to flesh out a classic collection, it’s time to think about expanding your fine jewelry options by selecting pieces that show the world who you are inside. Buy jewelry based upon your lifestyle and discover a whole new reason to accessorize.

How to Add Vintage Touches To Your Wedding

Discovering the perfect way to distinguish your wedding and make it seem both personal and elegant requires more than just a single night’s research. Rustic, classic and vintage weddings are lately popular theme ideas for making the big day feel satisfying. But even if you opt for a modern or otherwise non-antique style wedding, there’s no reason you can’t add a few vintage touches to add drama and intrigue. Here are some easy ideas to get you started.

Antiqued Paper Menus

Oval Engagement Ring With
Pear Sides and Pave Trim

If your guests are sitting down to a catered meal, why not upgrade the menus. Rather than using typical white or colored paper, either stain your own paper (tea bags are said to work well) or buy aged paper and print the menu yourself. The key to a classic antique look is to have light brown and tan shades blending throughout, or simply age the edges.

Lace Runners

You can buy lace by the yard at a local fabric store and quickly and easily create inexpensive yet gorgeous lace runners that guests will heartily praise. While some shops charge an arm and a leg for runners online, buying your own and maintaining a rustic look is not only affordable, it goes with the rustic style so many brides are choosing this year.

Bell Jar Decorations

Lever Back Diamond Earrings With Pave Halo

Glass bell jars add sophistication to simple decorations, like wildflowers or candles (they won’t stay lit if there’s no oxygen coming in, so electric lights work best), without being difficult to source or expensive to buy. You can even use them for home décor after your nuptials, so you don’t have to worry about spending money on needless items you’ll never use again.

Vintage Books

Visit a local bookstore that features old hardcover books. Don’t worry if they’re dusty, damaged or about uninteresting subject matter, that just adds to the appeal. These can be used as a centerpiece, or added in stacks around the tables and food serving areas. This is a particularly enchanting option for bookworms who want to include a personal element.

Old Fashioned Milk Cans

Pear Shaped Diamond Necklace
With Halo

One part rustic, one part vintage, old-fashioned milk cans work great alone or as flower vases as standalone decorations or as main centerpieces. They can even double as a location to include table numbers, guest names or spare pens for writing heartfelt notes. Though many milk cans are white, you can find or dye them a multitude of colors to suit your theme.

Vintage-Inspired Jewelry

No doubt you’ve already selected or received your engagement ring, but that’s not the only opportunity to show off some bling. If your dress has a vintage style to it, why not complement it with a vintage necklace or earrings? If they’re vintage-inspired, you’ve got your something new covered, and if they’re legitimately vintage they’re your something old.

Planning a wedding is both exciting and stressful, but when it comes time to choose your decorations and all the tiny elements that add style and grace to your marriage ceremony, it makes sense to want to include pieces that suggest romance and timelessness. Vintage décor and jewelry is an easy, often inexpensive way to do just that.

Vintage Jewelry: How to Choose the Right Designer

Finding the perfect vintage jewelry designer involves more than selecting a name randomly from the yellow pages or choosing a store from a Google Ad while on Facebook. Even asking friends for recommendations isn’t always the best way to find true love via designer jewelry. If you’re hoping to find the ideal ring, necklace or bracelet with more than a hint of vintage-inspired design, you’ll have to vet the company or individual first. Here are some quick tips on what to look for to ensure you end up with vintage jewelry you can cherish forever and never feel guilty about.

Choose Based on Ethics

Ruby Ring With Diamonds Around

The true test of a vintage jewelry designer isn’t the beauty of their designs or their affordable price point; it’s their commitment to providing ethically sourced fine jewelry that you can be proud to wear. Fortunately, Ziva ensures all its goods come from reliable places that treat the people who mine and produce the gemstones fairly (and with appropriate compensation) and manufacture the designs in-house in the U.S. No matter where you go to buy your jewelry, make sure they treat others as they would like to be treated.

Choose Based on Quality

Art Deco Diamond Bangle Bracelet

After determining whether or not a brand, company or indie designer uses ethical practices, the next chore is discovering the quality of their materials. Many independent designers, like the ones you find on Etsy or elsewhere, may use lower quality metals, gems or other materials in order to increase their profit margin. Even large companies are guilty of this deception. Ziva only uses the best supplies, including high-end jewelry must-haves like gold, platinum, diamonds, sapphires and more.

Choose Based on Customer Service

Vintage Sapphire Ring with
Moon Shape and Pave Diamonds

When you buy jewelry, even if you’re buying from a collection, you want the piece to be special. Any store worthy of the prices that beautiful jewelry costs will endeavor to provide you not only with unique jewelry (regardless of whether it’s custom made or not) and a unique experience. Taking the time to answer questions competently, help you as long as necessary and support your choices even if it means making less money or losing a sale is crucial. Don’t ever stand for bad service.

Finding the right fit with a jewelry designer might not seem all that important at first, but as you experience the highs and lows of shopping for vintage and vintage-inspired jewelry you’ll quickly realize the details matter. Trust Ziva to put your needs first, always, while providing exceptional products with a lifetime guarantee.

Fine Jewelry Trends: Vintage & Antique Style

Whether it’s fine jewelry or clothing, everyone knows that fashion trends are cyclical. What was once cool, then not cool, inevitably becomes cool again, and never was this so true as with vintage accessories. Sporting brilliant diamonds, colorful gemstones and uniquely intricate designs, vintage jewelry is understandably popular once more. While nearly every style is lovely, in order to avoid another momentary dip in style, here are recommendations for three of the most classic vintage-style fine jewelry pieces you should own, guaranteed to look cool from here until eternity.

Yellow Diamond Earrings

Yellow Diamond Earrings

Outfitted with a stunning display of small Pave diamonds, a pair of square-shaped yellow diamond earrings goes with everything. The hoops are a classic design, while the combination of diamond-shaped diamonds and the octagonal diamond frame help boost the drama of the central fancy stone. The sunshine yellow shade is happy and casual, perfectly balancing the glamor of the piece. This style works best for special occasions, but a confident woman can wear these beauties with anything.

Pear-Shaped Pendant

Pear-Shaped Diamond Necklace

The perfect pendant pairs well with every outfit you can imagine. It’s eye-catching but never gaudy, flattering the wearer and elevating the clothes. This vintage pear-shaped diamond necklace with pave halo does all that and more. Though simplistic in appearance from afar, the carefully designed piece has many fetching details, from the round brilliant stone hovering above the pear-shaped one to the expertly placed Pave gems surrounding the central stone. Add it to your everyday fine jewelry rotation and never suffer another misstep.

Floral Pattern Antique Bracelet

Floral Antique Bracelet

Nothing beats a big, chunky ornamental cuff for a breathtaking addition to any special occasion attire. Perhaps the best thing about vintage jewelry is its unabashed love for highly ornate pieces that don’t shy away from attention. That’s certainly true of the floral patterned antique-style bracelet, which includes a multitude of round diamonds placed within the elegantly feminine design. It never oversteps, however. Its luxurious beauty is tempered with a sophisticated style that’s incredibly wearable, and it looks fabulous on all skin tones.

Buying fine jewelry is a big investment, and you want the pieces you choose to remain fashionable for as long as possible. Vintage jewelry is not only on-trend at the moment, but promises to stay there indefinitely. Whether you prefer Edwardian, Victorian or Art Deco styles, a classic antique-style piece is always a perfect addition to any jewelry box.