There is a very long history behind the use of charms and bracelets. Every culture has a different connotation in wearing these.
Tracing back to the time when these pieces of arts were worn on the body was many centuries ago. It was believed that Egyptians were the first to wear these bracelets that had charms as a sign of their devotion. It was supposed that their belief in the afterlife was connected to wearing these charm bracelets, hence, their charm bracelets were about identity, and they believed their gods would be able to identify them with the charm bracelet they wore.
The early Christians though were not indifferent to wearing these bracelets. Although to an entirely different reason, they wore their charm bracelets in forms of fish, and these were for identification. During the Dark Ages, a specific type of fish charm would indicate from what family you belonged to, which really were for political and family namesake reasons. Knights, on the other hand, wore these charm bracelets for protection.
Just when everything seemed to be lost, Queen Victoria from the Great Britain relived the trend. She started showing off golden bracelets with lockets (enclosed are photographs of her family.) This elicited a positive response from the masses and commenced the wearing of charms for aesthetic purposes and not because of superstition.
It was Queen Victoria of Great Britain who reestablished the used of charms and bracelets. She popularized the use of charms with the photograph of her loved ones in it. Because of her, people have been considerably influenced to wear charms as ornaments, not as amulets.
Currently, you can see so many bracelets of different variety being worn by individuals. Men, women, children, working class people, blue-collar, white-collar, grandparents, the list is quite endless, and there really is no age limit or division for the types of people who wear them.
Some give them to others as a sign of their partnership, or friendship. Some wear them to indicate a specific group they belong to. Some wear them with lockets, some instead of images of family members, would have people they idolize, some would have their favorite things, hobbies, a pendant for a book, a tennis racket--so many things that one can have a jeweler create.
Bracelets, charms, people wear them now for their own personal reasons, and similar to history, they could be for posteritys sake, they could be for identification. Why do you wear your bracelet? - 30224
Tracing back to the time when these pieces of arts were worn on the body was many centuries ago. It was believed that Egyptians were the first to wear these bracelets that had charms as a sign of their devotion. It was supposed that their belief in the afterlife was connected to wearing these charm bracelets, hence, their charm bracelets were about identity, and they believed their gods would be able to identify them with the charm bracelet they wore.
The early Christians though were not indifferent to wearing these bracelets. Although to an entirely different reason, they wore their charm bracelets in forms of fish, and these were for identification. During the Dark Ages, a specific type of fish charm would indicate from what family you belonged to, which really were for political and family namesake reasons. Knights, on the other hand, wore these charm bracelets for protection.
Just when everything seemed to be lost, Queen Victoria from the Great Britain relived the trend. She started showing off golden bracelets with lockets (enclosed are photographs of her family.) This elicited a positive response from the masses and commenced the wearing of charms for aesthetic purposes and not because of superstition.
It was Queen Victoria of Great Britain who reestablished the used of charms and bracelets. She popularized the use of charms with the photograph of her loved ones in it. Because of her, people have been considerably influenced to wear charms as ornaments, not as amulets.
Currently, you can see so many bracelets of different variety being worn by individuals. Men, women, children, working class people, blue-collar, white-collar, grandparents, the list is quite endless, and there really is no age limit or division for the types of people who wear them.
Some give them to others as a sign of their partnership, or friendship. Some wear them to indicate a specific group they belong to. Some wear them with lockets, some instead of images of family members, would have people they idolize, some would have their favorite things, hobbies, a pendant for a book, a tennis racket--so many things that one can have a jeweler create.
Bracelets, charms, people wear them now for their own personal reasons, and similar to history, they could be for posteritys sake, they could be for identification. Why do you wear your bracelet? - 30224
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