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A tennis bracelet looks simple: one line of matching stones, wrist to clasp. That simplicity is why it goes with jeans as easily as black tie, and also why small differences in fit and build
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November is when the jewelry world shifts into holiday mode. Retailers lock in their gift lineups, the big auction houses hold their fall sales, and shoppers start making lists. Here is what
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A birthstone is one of the easiest ways to make a piece of jewelry feel like it belongs to someone. It works for a baby's first bracelet, a mother's ring with one stone per kid, or a small p
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Most engagement-ring shopping starts with the diamond. The setting, though, is what you see every time you look at your hand. It decides how big the stone looks, how much it catches on sweat
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Pearls used to mean one thing: a strand your grandmother wore to church. These days they turn up on paperclip chains, mismatched in a single ear, and stacked with gold. They're the only gem
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Ask ten people to describe their dream diamond and you'll hear about shape long before carat or clarity comes up. Shape sets the personality of a piece. A round brilliant feels classic, an e
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Every diamond is sold with a short list of grades: cut, color, clarity and carat. Those four letters decide most of the price, but they don't all matter equally to how a stone looks on your
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Most jewelry doesn't get damaged while you're wearing it. It gets damaged in a drawer, where chains knot themselves together, diamonds scratch softer stones and silver slowly turns gray. A l
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Look closely at almost any piece of gold jewelry and you'll find a tiny stamp: 10K, 14K or 18K. That number tells you how much pure gold is in the metal, and it affects how the piece looks,
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A ring that spins around your finger or leaves a dent at the end of the day isn't one you'll reach for often. Getting the size right is the least exciting part of buying a ring, and it matte
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You find a necklace you love, order it, put it on and... it lands in the wrong spot. It hides under your collar, gets lost in a crewneck, or hits right at a seam. Usually the problem isn't t
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A few years ago, "earrings" meant one matching pair. Now most of us have two, three or even five piercings per ear, and the fun is in how you fill them. A good ear stack looks collected over
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