Wholesale Fashion Jewelry - The Rock in a Changing Fashion World

The progression of fashion seems to have evolved from cultured mystique to common place over the last fifty years. The couture houses that fit clients into one of a kind apparel have all but disappeared. The days before television when department stores introduced local communities to Paris' latest designs are gone. Fashion has been a spiral downward towards casual apparel that has lost its flair. Teri Agins details the loss of fashion's magic in her book, The End of Fashion.

While apparel reduces to ready-to-wear with several of a kind hanging on the racks, jewelry continues its unique march of individualism. Designers, small and large, provide statement pieces that fill the void for uniqueness and wholesale houses offer flair that apparel seems to have lost. Major retailers respond to consumers' attraction for special individualism by dedicating more floor space to accessories. Boutiques and small retailers flourish on the desire for wearable art.

Wholesale jewelry is at the heart of these retailers' businesses. It provides a rock in fashion not only because it fills the void for something individually special but also because the evolution of styles rises and falls over a period of several years.

Classic trends entered the fashion arena in the early 21st century. Classic implies retro and the fingerprint is clearly on the development in several fields of everyday life. How many cars do you see that look like 30s sedans, fifties sports cars, or the Mus

ang of the sixties?

Sunglasses went retro with Jackie O looks followed by the seventies and eighties styles of Ted Lapidus. The wayfarers are back from the sixties and hats made a comeback that included ivy caps, newsboys, and cloches from the twenties. Belts returned with the waisted silhouettes so popular in the forties, fifties, and sixties. The list goes on, but wholesale jewelry is the focus of this discussion because it stabilizes fashion with beauty that accessorizes and pulls looks into a current that defines today.

Think about gemstone jewelry. In the nineties this was a niche market that had little impact on mainstream fashion. Today it graces the showcases of nearly very major department store and covers the pages of fashion magazines. It didn't start this year. No, it has steadily developed over the last few years with more unusual semi precious stones entering designs and endless creations providing new expressions.

Will it continue? Undoubtedly! Gemstone jewelry is at the heart of classic fashion and entrenched in the trend. Trends are long term. Many new directions pop up every season in fashion and wholesale jewelry. Some are fads that are short lived; some are a flash in the pan that go nowhere; but trends cover more than one field and rise and fall over a long period-often a decade. Gemstone is a major part of the wholesale jewelry that defies this present trend and will continue next season and most likely several more.

This is the stability that accessories give to fashion. Oversize handbags! How many seasons have we seen them? Belts, patent leather, and oversize sunglasses also continue their long march.

Yes, every season brings some changes to accessories, but they are modifications and color adjustments to the prevailing trends. While gemstone reaches its pinnacle in wholesale jewelry, something quietly brews below the radar that will be the next trend. But there is plenty of time to prepare for that because, remember, jewelry trends rise and fall over a long period as they provide stability to fashion. And everything from cottage shop designers to major wholesalers flourishes on the surprise of new creations with beauty that takes the breath of consumers as the trend rolls on.

Mike Gietl has a 23 year association with Accessory Wholesale Inc a company that provides wholesale jewelry and fashion accessories.