| The eighth decade of the XX century is often called the "years of greed and satiety," and during this period the upper classes capitals of whose were enriching due to the development industry used to spend their money on expensive luxury items and exclusive brands. That time some drastic changes in female life occurred in social and professional spheres.
The emancipation process, started in the early years of XX century, has reached the point where women were involved in all businesses. Women,educated and motivated, preferred clothes that emphasized their new role in the society.
Formal suit with broad shoulders that was suitable from morning till night, at the meeting and in the opera, was favourite during this decade.
Purple velvet and multicolored patterns in the oriental style were substituted by neutral,official colors: beige, gray and blue. Black was the most fashionable color of the decade both in the daytime and in the evening. It was often combined with some vivid details of fuchsia, orange, turquoise or apple green.
Changes in fashion led to a new trend in jewelry design: jewelry became bigger and eye-catching. Previously, women could take jewelry only from their lovers, husbands and fathers. Now financial independence allows every woman to choose and buy her own jewelry as well as clothing and accessories. Large, eye-catching multi-colored earrings - clusters or hanging – fit modern short haircut the best. Women used to wear yellow gold both in office and outside as it was the the most popular metal for jewelry. Jewels were decorated with diamonds, rubies, emeralds and sapphires.
Precious and semiprecious stones was the innovation in the sphere of decoration due to the color. Pale yellow, pale pink, pale blue sapphires, rubies pink and pale-green emeralds combined with other colored stones: green and pink tourmaline, dark-red pomegranates, lemon-yellow citrine, purple salad olivine and amethysts.
Indikolit and blue topaz was widely used due to their attractive blue tone.
In 1979 Arzhil deposits excavations in Western Australia led to the saturation of the market with pink diamonds, small but intensively colored and attractive. They became the decoration for expensive jewelry. Jewelers of 1980’s rejected the process of surrounding colored stones by diamond framework and turned to bold color combinations of the 1920's. They began to combine rubies and emeralds - and also amethysts, sapphires - with yellow citrine. Cutters conducted experiments with all kinds of forms and often carried out some orders for unique faceting of the stones for the specific jewelry. Earrings were adorned with pendants of semi-precious colored stones. Cultured pearls were extremely popular to the end of the decade, namely large cultured pearls called "South Seas" - they were grown in the warm waters of the coasts of Australia, Burma, Indonesia and the Philippines. These pearls that grow in a large clam shell pinctada maxima, were larger than 10 mm in diameter. They were rare and very expensive, subject to proper shape, beautiful color and the absence of defects. But with the development of growing techniques the market became saturated, and prices of such pearls at the end of 1990 reduced greatly.
The main trend in the 1980's was to design practical ornaments, suitable for dynamic and active lifestyle of modern women. Such goods were characterized generally as smooth, rounded contours, entirely different from the jagged edges of the abstract and oriental design of the previous decade. Geometric design, stylized natural motifs and symmetry have prevailed. Now after the decade of complete freedom and lack of common aesthetic conception all western jewelry houses followed this trend.
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