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Jewellery consists of small decorative items worn for personal adornment, such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, and bracelets. Jewelry may be attached to the body or the clothes, and the term is restricted to durable ornaments, excluding flowers for example. For many centuries metal, often combined with gemstones, has been the normal material for jewelry, but other materials such as shells, amber, coral, Leather , cotton. Beads and other plant materials may be used.
Jewelry are worn by both men and women in cultures around the world for purposes of adornment and social status. Men & Women have used jewelry for a number of different reasons:
· functional, generally to fix clothing or hair in place, or to tell the time (in the case of watches)· as a marker of social status and personal status, as with a wedding ring· as a signifier of some form of affiliation, whether ethnic, religious or social· to provide talismanic protection (in the form of amulets)· as an artistic display· as a carrier or symbol of personal meaning – such as love, mourning, or even luck
