Sterling Silver Religious Jewelry Article

It is interesting to see the evolution of fashion. Fashion is reflected in jewelry, especially sterling silver Jewelry. If you are a student of fashion then you recognize that many fashion trends repeated themselves from one decade to another. Perhaps a lake of creativity in the trend setters. That's not really evolution is repetition.

This post deals more specifically with sterling silver Religious jewelry, a sub group of sterling silver fashion jewelry.

Here is an interesting example of evolution in fashion jewelry, especially in sterling silver and a little in gold. That is the dog tag cross necklace.   We know cross necklaces have been around for just about forever but not the dog tag style of cross necklaces.

Women have served in the military for a very long time. Thank you women veterans. But in the last couple of decades there have been a ground swell of women serving in the military. Again thank you women for your sacrifice and service to our country.

Dog tags have been a popular necklace style for men for a long time. anywhere from authentic dog tags to fashionable variations of the dog tag. Now sterling silver artisans have combined the dog tag with the cross and now we have dog tag cross necklace. Did women influence this trend? I'm not sure. I might say yes except men have been majors consumers of the cross necklaces for a few decades now. So who inspired this trend is hard to say.

But what I am pretty sure about is that because women have been exposed to dog tags more than ever before, the dog tag cross necklaces are enjoying a much larger audience because you have both genders appreciating the style of the dog tag cross necklace.

Look at the two types of cross necklace dog tag necklaces we sale (phpts are lower in this article). One of the dog tag crosses reflects the more traditional or original style of the dog tags and the other is more oval shaped. Designed to have more appeal with women but for sure both styles of cross necklace dog tag style appeals to both genders.

The men's cross necklace genre a few decades ago would be where we would have placed these dog tag cross necklaces. But due to the facts already put forth here we would happily concede that these dog tag cross necklaces are gender neutral and that the genre of cross necklaces for women would also fit for the dog tag styled of cross necklace.

I don't know when the military started using dog tags on their soldiers but since they have the "dog tag" shape has been slowly but steadily growing in popularity. Now over the last few years there is a mens cross necklace style that included a sterling silver cross in the shape of a dog tag. In fact at HandCraftedCollectibles.com we carry two different dog tag cross necklace.

Our huge collection of cross necklaces for men includes many cross necklaces that have a men's appeal but nothing is as exclusively manly as the  dog tag cross necklace displayed in the picture above. Having said that it is only fair to say that now that women have added great service to our armed forces they too like the Dog Tag Cross necklace.