Jewellery

Jewellery is a form of personal adornment, manifesting itself as necklaces, rings, brooches, earrings and bracelets. Jewellery may be made from any material, usually gemstones, precious metals or shells. Factors affecting the choice of materials include cultural differences and the availability of the materials. Jewellery may be appreciated because of its material properties, its patterns or for meaningful symbols. Jewellery differs from other items of personal adornment in that it has no other purpose than to look appealing. Items such as belts and handbags are considered to be accessories rather than jewellery.


Jewellery has been used for a number of reasons:

• Currency, wealth display and storage
• Functional use
• Symbolism
• Protection
• Artistic display

For platinum, gold and silver jewellery there are many techniques to create finishes. The most common are high-polish, satin/matte, brushed and hammered. High-polished jewellery is by far the most common and gives the metal the highly-reflective and shiny look. Satin or matte finish reduces the shine and reflection of the jewellery and is commonly used to accentuate gemstones such as diamonds. Brushed finishes give the jewellery a textured look and are created by brushing a material against the metal. Hammered finishes are typically created by using a soft, rounded hammer and hammering the jewellery to give it a wavy texture. Some jewellery is plated to give it a shiny, reflective look or to achieve a desired colour. Most cultures have at some point had a practice of keeping large amounts of wealth stored in the form of jewellery. Numerous cultures move wedding in the form of jewellery. Alternatively, jewellery has been used as a currency or trade good. Many items of jewellery, such as brooches and buckles originated as purely functional items, but evolved into decorative items as their functional requirement diminished.

American gold jewellery must be of at least 10K purity (41.7% pure gold), (though in the UK the number is 9K (37.5% pure gold) and is typically found up to 18K (75% pure gold). Higher purity levels are less common with alloys at 22 K (91.6% pure gold), and 24 K (99.9% pure gold) being considered too soft for jewellery use in America and Europe. These high purity alloys, however, are widely used across Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Platinum alloys range from 900 (90% pure) to 950 (95.0% pure). The silver used in jewellery is usually sterling silver or 92.5% fine silver. In costume jewellery, stainless steel findings are sometimes used.

What's the deal?

The word glamour might have different meaning for people but it is one word that is often misused and abused. From money-driven movie producers to scantily clad kollywood actresses, models and now even the girl next door, everyone seems to use the word heavily. But what is glamour actually? Is it just showing skin and posing provocatively, or is it X-factor that makes you standout sans the skin-show?
Here is some view of young people about “Glamour”a

1. What is glamour according to you?
Sahana: Its’ the quality the woman possesses.
Smriti: It is charm with sophistication.
Abhinav: Being a fashion photographer, glamour has two meaning for me. One is the attractiveness of the woman and other is the traditional concept.
Chirag: It’s a state of mind. It’s about learning to carry yourself well, no matter what you were wearing.

2. How do you differentiate between fashion and glamour?
Supriya: A certain amount of confidence is required to be glamorous and this doesn’t come from clothes, no matter how fashionable they might be.
Smriti: fashion is all about clothes where glamour is about behaving a certain way in a given place or situation.
Dipankar: A model can be glamorous just by the way she express herself and the fashionable clothes are completely secondary.

3. Why do you think being glamorous is taken as a sin sometimes in Nepalese society?
Smriti: The people’s mind is already set in that way. Most of them give just a negative vibes for wearing make-up only.
Sahana: Yes! I don’t know what the fuss is all about!
Dipankar: It might be because girls start at such an early age when their total focus should be on studies.

4. Why do you think that men are not considered glamorous?
Sritina: It’s probably because there is not much skin show among men.
Chirag: Well, even if they did participate in skin-show the society which is still dominated by men accepts it.
Sahana: It’s simply because woman have the power to change peoples perception through their appearances that men lacks.

5. In your view, was it fair that Miss Nepal was stopped from taking place?
Smriti: No it wasn’t. They openly snatched our personal rights. It was a loss for all the participants as well as the whole country. They are doing this for cheap publicity.
Dipankar: It is not illogical but also illegal to stop a prestigious event like MissNepal.
Abhinav: It’s a big bow to democracy as well. I think that if they were really worried about women being objectified, they should have been the ones to close the dance bar, not the home ministry.

6. Do you think sari is glamorous attire?
All: Yes it is.
Sristina: People dn’t seems to object about it because the legs are covered.

7. In your Opinion, have the Nepali people been too influenced by the western glamour world?
Abhinav: We are not running after their trends, but we are following their developments.
Smriti: Yes to a certain extent, but we have balance our lives as well. No matter how rapidly our surrounding maybe changing, but we still live in a very conservative society.

8. Name one personality that you find glamorous.
Smriti: Aishwarya Rai, because she is the perfect combination of beauty and brain.
Supriya: Sushmita Sen, my dad and dynamic Bhushan Dahal.
Abhinav: I found Bipasha Basu.
Chirag: Aamir khan and Aishwarya Rai.
Dipankar: I can’t name any one person because the rest of the models who have worked with me will kill me.