Charm Fashion Jewelry Blog Posts

In this section you will find information about charms — the small decorative pendants that are collected and worn on bracelets, necklaces and other jewelry. A charm bracelet is built one piece at a time: each charm marks an occasion, a place, a symbol or a gift, which is why charm collections are sold by season and celebration. This page is the blog post index for the topic on Apparel Search: it collects the charm posts from the fashion blog and links the wider jewelry blog at the top.

Charm Fashion Blog Posts

About Charms

Six posts sit in this index, and five concern one maker: Chamilia, whose bead-and-charm bracelets anchor the category in these years. Chamilia Valentine's Day 2016 Collection and Chamilia Holiday Charm Sale are the seasonal collection posts — charms are gift jewelry, so the category's calendar is the gift calendar. Chamilia Great Bridal Gifts extends the same logic to weddings. Libra Zodiac Charms covers the zodiac lines, charms chosen by birth sign. The sixth post, Autism Puzzle Piece Charm for Charity, is the cause charm: a puzzle-piece pendant sold to support autism charities, the jewelry version of cause-linked fashion.

Charms divide by how they attach. Traditional charms hang from a jump ring on a link bracelet and move freely; European-style bead charms thread onto a smooth bracelet or necklace through a large core hole and sit in place, often with separator beads and safety chains between them. Materials run from sterling silver and gold vermeil to enamel, crystal and glass, and the two systems are not interchangeable, which is the first thing a gift buyer must check. The guides in the topic block below cover charm bracelets alongside the wider bracelet family — bangle, beaded, gold and cuff bracelets — and the necklaces guide, for charms worn as pendants.

Collecting is the category's engine: a bracelet starts as a gift with a few charms and grows by occasions, so makers release limited seasonal charms — the holiday and Valentine's posts in this index are exactly that mechanism — and retired designs trade at a premium among collectors. Zodiac, initial, birthstone and hobby charms form the permanent core of most lines because they personalize a bracelet without an occasion. Readers choosing a first charm bracelet will find the bracelet guides below the practical next step.