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It is said that the real beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. However, the present era has changed this saying to some extent. Now you need to wear attractive clothes and matching accessories in order to appear beautiful. Jewelry comes within that type of accessories, which can enhance the natural charm of the wearer.

Jewelry has been used as an investment since centuries. Gold has been the most preferred investment option in most parts of the world. However, investing in solid gold bars is a better investment decision since the price of ornamental gold is less and keeps changing. In addition to this, investing in precious metals gets you an income tax exemption since you do not earn any taxable income on it. If you deposit cash in the bank and the bank gives you interest on it, then that interest will be taxable.

Nature has gifted mankind with an abundance of metals. However, there are only a few metals that are used to make jewelry because they are precious. They have special properties like ductility, malleability and luster, which allows them to be carved into jewelry pieces. However, precious metals need to be combined with other metals to make them strong and resistance to wear and tear.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines jewelry as objects, worn to adorn the body. Jewelry as adornment, dates back to ancient history, where pieces resembling ornaments, over 100,000 years old, having been found. These were a set of beads made out of animal bones. Since it is believed that the first humans were from Africa, the concept that jewelry also originated from Africa only comes with simple reasoning.

Wearing fashionable earrings is a trend that is around 5000 thousand years old and women still adorns this fashion as they did back then. Silver hoops came to the other parts of the world with the advent of ancient Greeks in 200 AD. In the beginning, only women belonging to the upper class of society were allowed or could afford wearing such pieces of jewelry to adorn them. However, times changed and wearing studs became a casual trend of every rich or poor woman in town.

The ‘classic watch’ with the black, brown or beige color leather strap with an elegant white dial is still without doubt man’s most important accessory. Lot of conservative men still believe that the watch was and should be the only fashion accessory for their gender.