How to truly test trends and quality of silver jewellery and fashion jewellery?
Hey there reader! So before I tell you in detail what this blog is all about, let me first tell you two lines about where I come from. My name is Dharmedra Singh and I come from a very humbling but disciplined background where the quality of silver jewellery and fashion jewellery was given the utmost of importance. I have worked with various brands and have remained a veteran for nearly a decade now as a silver jewellery and fashion jewellery designer. And hence I think I am might be a person who could confidently speak about this subject i.e. testing trends and quality of silver jewellery and fashion jewellery.
Let’s start!
- Understanding what’s vogue now!
If you’re a person whom I am training and you tell me this silver jewellery or fashion jewellery piece was famous and hence we must include it in our current collection, well i’d just tell you but is it vogue now?
Because in fashion what is vogue now may not even be in trend tomorrow. That’s how fast fashion trends change. There are very rare styles that are era defining or timeless legendary styles that no matter what, never go out of fashion. Its these kinds of silver jewellery and fashion jewellery pieces that are truly always vogue whereas for the others it is our task to check out some of the best web-stores online. Most silver jewellery and fashion jewellery webstores don’t just simply come up with collections at random. These are carefully constructed collections that take some amount of critical thinking and research.
Web-stores like the SilverShine webstore spend large sums of money wherein they have people in place to create some of the most trendy collections that the world has ever seen. They employ experts that earn their entire livelihoods just by being a fashion and aesthetics expert with true passion.
And hence what’s vogue now is what is truly vogue now and not what was vogue yesterday. Wow that’s a nice tongue twister.
- Tensile Strength Test – TST
TST or Tensile Strength Test is an excellent method to examine and measure the quality of the materials used in anything, in our case it is silver jewellery and fashion jewellery. Web-stores like SilverShine make it a point to nearly maul their jewellery sample pieces to check its strength. They have set standards for tensile strength. Any items that fall short are completely discarded. You see what i’m talking about now. That’s the kind of test that I am doing. The test that truly puts stress to ascertain the peaks of the quality, in this case the tensile strengths of the silver jewellery and fashion jewellery.
- Scratchabilty
Okay lets say you buy a dazzling piece of silver jewellery online or maybe a piece of fashion jewellery from a nearby physical store. You come home, wear it for two days and then observe a big scratch on it which is so visible that you just find yourself at a cross road whether to continue wearing it or not. This is where a scratch test comes in.
Testing materials and them picking the best ones that aren’t easily scratchable for the shoppers is
what the true purpose of a scratch test is. In any case a scratch test can be conducted by creating 10 picks of increasing scales of mineral hardness. The best way to understand is to base it off of Moh’s scale of mineral hardness. This creates a standard and you’d not have create your own method to figure out how to measure.
- Finally comes the Skin-Friendly Test!
There is a reason why most good silver jewellery and fashion jewellery webstores are required to remain proactive in creating collections and it is the Skin-Friendly Test!
This test takes atleast 48 hours before tagging a single piece of silver jewellery or fashion jewellery safe for use. Now that is just my method of working, incase you have different protocol that you might have worked on, that’s absolutely fine. Here the silver jewellery and fashion jewellery sample pieces of each style are worn by testers for 48 hours and all the different
kinds of experiences are noted down. Every tester creates a report and submits it to the Head Tester. He/She then consolidates and narrows down the collection and discards any items that have caused any kinds of distress in the last 48 hours. Any silver jewellery or fashion jewellery that has caused maybe rashes, injury due to sharp edges, irritation, etc are discarded and that item is completely removed.
I hope you found this article insightful. I do trust SilverShine since they are one of the few jewellery brands that has come a little close to my testing methods which I consider as a basic standard that everyone must follow but there are certainly those out there that disagree and find it too harsh. But if harsh is what keeps shoppers safe then maybe they’re right.
