Ruby and Diamond Necklace Styles

The ruby and diamond necklace comes in a large variety of styles. As it is a hard stone there are almost no limits for designers on how the stone can be faceted or presented in a setting. One of popular style is a necklace that consists ofseveral different ruby and diamond charms dangling from a ring that in turn hangs from a delicate chain around the neck. These charms could consist of items such as a diamond or ruby birthstone, a cloverleaf inset with a diamond or ruby or a diamond and ruby cross. The more cliché the charms are, (think ballet slippers, Eiffel Towers and cupid's arrows) the hipper this type of ruby and diamond necklace is.

Also quite popular right now are necklaces that consist of a chain from which dangles one circlet of ruby chips and another circlet of diamond chips. The symbolism of the two circles intersecting as they dangle from the neck represents love and unity.

Complex dangling earrings and necklaces from which rubies and diamonds hang in clusters are also very much in style in 2006. The look is somehow a cross between Victorian chic and New Age Indian Bohemian and it is a look that is sported by many celebrities in Hollywood as the latest way to appear vaguely "spiritual" while at the same time dripping in diamonds and rubies.

Diamond and ruby necklace sets are as much in fashion as they were fifty years ago when prim and proper young women wore a collar of gemstones that also matched their delicate stud earrings. Another style featured ruby necklace sets with a tiny heart shaped dangling from a delicate gold chain and two other tiny heart shaped rubies in the ears. Sometimes a heart shaped ruby ring flanked by two little diamonds also accompanied this "sweetheart" jewellery set.

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