Wearing fashion jewelry has always been known as a status symbol. There is both popular and professional conviction that fashion jewelry can function as important classificatory symbols in the social process of status rating. At the same time, styles of fashion are taken so much for granted that there is a scarcity of empirical data available to justify generalization. The term "status" indicates a degree of prestige that accorded a role that social value placed on the particular occupation as well as the degree of success achieved by the particular individual.
How status and role are perceived by society depends on how much universal agreement there is on the actual symbol, which in this case is fashion jewelry. People vary in the degree of their sensitivity and perception as it relates to fashion jewelry. Some people perceive only very concrete specific distinctions and not recognize the possible ambiguity and complexity of the conditions. For example, one person may have more experience, judgment or maturity with respect to buying and selling fashion jewelry. Another person might think that a person is either well dressed with glamorous jewelry or dressed trendy with fashion jewelry. Because each person has a unique frame or reference, one will seldom perceive or interpret appearance of fashion jewelry in exactly the same way as another.
Jewelry is used by some as material evidence of wealth. For others cars, boats, and houses provide outward evidence of achievement. Although these things are very superficial and not nearly as important as human relationships. For a woman who is passionately absorbed in owning jewelry, fashion is a form of social competition. Not only may she earn a place on some “best dressed” list but she is able to demonstrate her affluence by the clothing and jewelry she is able to buy.
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