Victorian fashion

Empire Jewelry appeared in 1800 in France. Handsome Napoleon is not only a military genius; he is extremely sensitive to fashion. When Napoleon eventually became French emperor in 1804 he restored jewelry and fashion clothes promote the formation of the magnificent styleJewellery sets are the type that the royal most love such as diamond crown, diamond earrings, diamond ring, and diamond brooch and diamond necklace combination design. The shell and agate carved with various gorgeous patterns are also used in the design of the royal crown.

 Queen Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria) is the longest-reigning monarch in British history, she is known as "Europe grandmother", she succeeds in reigning Britain for more than 64 years which is called the empire on which the sun never sets. In the early Victoria period (Early Victorian 1837-1860) is also known as the romantic period, this young and charming queen full of vigor and vitality fallen in love with Albert, and they married in 1840.Before 19th century, women had not specific wedding dress, the brides just put on their most beautiful clothes in the wedding day. Until 1840 Queen Victoria put on the first wedding dress in history, a big beautiful white brocade dress with orange pattern's veil which made a great sensation in that time. Later her wedding dress became popular in royal and upper-class society. From that time wedding dress as a formal wedding gown appeared

She loves to collect many kinds of rare jewelry. When she attends dancing party or various banquets, she often wears gold and various luxurious jewels, while in the day time she would like to wear ivory, tortoise, shell, coral and pearl jewelry, among them Queen Victoria loves to coral jewelry most. Queen Victoria likes snakes, because she believes that snake is a symbol of loyalty and love. Therefore the snake shaped and pattern jewelry became popular and had been used in decoration which symbolizes the wisdom and eternality.At that time, turtleneck dress and hat covering the ears were in fashion, so women wear necklaces and earrings seldom. While brooch is the jewellery that they often wear, they pin brooch in the collar in the daytime and evening they often wear brooch with flowers. And the common gem jewellery that royal often wear are rose cutting diamond, amethyst, topaz, turquoise, chalcedony, coral, garnet, ruby, pearl and shell.Allow.
In the middle of Victoria (Middle Victorian 1860-1885), Lockets become very important fashion accessories; women can put their darlings' pictures or hair in this secret small box, and wear it in the front of their chest for memory and missing.

In late Victorian times (the Late Victorian 1885-1901), Mourning jewelry is the main trend. After her husband Albert died, she wears black jade jewellery for commemorating her husband for a long time. Then mourning jewelry became a kind of fashion accessories at that time.Art Nouveau Jewelry was born in the 1890s in Art Nouveau period, Art Nouveau is French, means new art, its inspiration comes from the nature and the Japanese art. The new art jewelry combined with images of animals and plants, and pattern of fairy tale and fantasy. The Art Nouveau jewelry has the following features: curvy lines, abstract natural pattern such as butterflies, birds, leaves, and moon, mythical creatures such as dragon and phoenix, beautiful mermaid, angle with white wings.

Art Deco jewelry appeared in the World War One, which influence the mainstream of art decoration in the 1920s and 30s. It is characterized by bold, sharp color contrast, geometric figure and smooth streamline.In 1939, the World War?ended the Art Deco Jewelry, in 1940 gems are in short supply, platinum also became the need of the war. After the war diamonds and gold is main material of jewellery which is so called Retro Jewelry. The late 1940s' jewelry reflects relative material abundance post-war, jewellery design of this time is female, and the line of jewelry is relatively soft