Costume jewelry has many similar meaning. Different words are used for mentioning costume jewelry. One of these names are Fashion jewelry. We can call costume jewelry as Fashion jewelry also. Costume jewelry has been manufactured as an alternative to fine jewelry. Because fine jewelry is expensive and people wanted to wear different accessories with different clothes and these made Fashion jewelry popular. Now fine jewelry diamonds or other precious stones are purchased for investment.
In fine jewelry precious stones like diamonds, emerald, sapphire and gold as an precious metal. Instead of fine jewelry in costume jewelry non precious beads or stones, plastic beads, glass beads are used.
With mass production of Fashion jewelry the artists also made designs in mass production. In the modern period of jewelry in history big designs were used.
When we look at 20th century we see that costume jewelry has been more popular with the designs of brand names like Chanel, Gucci, Dior. They made people care about costume jewelry more by their designs.
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