Grammy Jewelry or Grammy's Jewelry?

It was definately an 'egg-cellent' evening at the Grammy Awards this year! Grammy gals were decked out in gorgeous statement earrings. Baby Baby Oooooh ...Long chandeliers, Bollywood inspired tassels, and colored stones and diamonds shone like the Starry Starry Night. Neat diamond button studs and oversized discs are definately the understated choice seen everywhere all of a sudden. All you beautiful earrings.. I Need You Now! Earrings are definately my favorite accessory.

The Grammys usually bring out the rock glam side of the attendees but this year only a few took a Walk On the Wild Side. Many were beautifully dressed in golds and silvers and were real Satin Dolls flaunting their statement earrings.

From ancient times Golden Earrings were worn to show ownership, prowess, and later wealth and power. Pierced earrings were worn exclusively until the early 1900s when the rise of the clip earring revolutionized the costume jewelry industry. Many didn't have to 'work on Maggie's Farm no more' when the huge costume jewelry industry provided thousands of jobs. When the clip earring came into fashion, pierced ears were considered old world and outdated. Overstated, weighty earrings could now be worn painlessly without the worry of a piercing slicing through the lobe leaving the fashion victim saying I Need A Doctor! (Whew! that was a stretch...). A tremendous earring explosion occured in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Fine jewelers who had fled Europe during World War II found their way to the costume jewelry manufacturing companies in Rhode Island and New York. They had tremendous freedom to create their original artistic designs which is why we have so many examples of fine design in the vintage clip earring market today. This trend continued until the 1960s when stylish men, rock groups, and sports figures began wearing them. The pierced earring trend made a strong Recovery. Women wanted pierced earrings exclusively so the clips retreated.
Now clips are back because the earrings are getting bigger and heavier. I have even spotted fine jewelers offering 14K clip earrings this season.

So Grammy, you have become A Teenage Dream. Grammy's jewelry is Grammy jewelry!