{"id":29541,"date":"2015-06-17T21:40:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T01:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=29541"},"modified":"2015-06-17T21:40:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T01:40:08","slug":"jewels-of-the-month-part-2-anklet-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/jewels-of-the-month-part-2-anklet-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewels of the Month, Part 2: Anklet Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

I want to highlight one of the styles I introduced in yesterday’s post<\/a>: the ankle bracelet, aka anklet.<\/p>\n

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My barbed wire anklet in platinum and diamonds. Click to shop.<\/p><\/div>\n

While anklets have been around since ancient times<\/a> and are still a perennial in some cultures, in the U.S. they’ve gone in and out of fashion. I say they’re due for a big, fine-jewelry comeback! In recent years, “arm parties<\/a>” of bracelets; “finger parties<\/a>” of rings; hand jewelry<\/a>; ears<\/a> full of studs, earring jackets, ear climbers<\/a> and ear cuffs<\/a>; layers and layers of necklaces<\/a>; and body chains<\/a>. Every body part has been loaded with jewelry except for the leg. The poor leg. THINK OF THE LEG FOR GOD’S SAKE!<\/p>\n

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My barbed wire anklet in 18K yellow gold and diamonds. Click to shop.<\/p><\/div>\n

Summer with its leg-baring shorts and dresses is obviously the best season for showing off anklets. But you can also wear an anklet with a more covered-up look — even jeans — the way my former employee Eryn does.<\/p>\n

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My silver barbed wire anklet. Click to shop.<\/p><\/div>\n

Before the weather warmed up, Eryn wore her anklet over socks.<\/p>\n

For a long time, the only anklets I’ve seen have been woven ones — friendship-bracelet styles — worn by pre-teens and teens. That makes it seem a little subversive to wear a high-end ankle bracelet, and you know I like subversion! The platinum version of my anklet is especially amusing to me, because even in the fine-jewelry anklet heyday in the 1970s and ’80s, 14K gold was\u00a0de rigueur<\/em>.\u00a0 Like I said yesterday<\/a>, I want to shake up platinum a little and treat it\/wear it in unexpected ways, so the anklet is going to be my No. 1 platinum look this summer.<\/p>\n

Shop my anklets here<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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I want to highlight one of the styles I introduced in yesterday’s post: the ankle bracelet, aka anklet. While anklets have been around since ancient times and are still a perennial in some cultures, in the U.S. they’ve gone in and out of fashion. I say they’re due for a big, fine-jewelry comeback! In recent…<\/p>\n

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