[Jewelry making - Article 00756] - Re: [Orchid] Initial impulses for self adornment

[Marilyn Smith]

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    Let's not forget that personal adornment and fashion make a
    statement about the wearer. It can proclaim wealth, fertility,
    honor, and status. What an individual can wear has been mandated by
    various governments through history (pointed shoes anyone?) and
    religions. Function such as belt buckles although serving to hold a
    belt together or the pants up, also may say that you like or or a
    rodeo rider, beer drinker, racecar driver, or just an average joe
    with a nondescript but functional buckle. Note: I'm not trying to
    put down anyone wearing a big buckle. 

    Philip Morton has a good chapter on the function of jewelry and
    includes "utilitarian, status, symbolic, magical and jewelry as
    expression  in his book "Contemporary Jewelry" which I am sure is
    long out of print. 

Marilyn Smith


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