If you are a woman, perhaps you liked to play dress up as a little girl. Your attire might have include princess dresses and fun jewelry. That fun jewelry is known as costume jewelry, and although you are grown up, there are still lots of ways that you can wear costume jewelry.
About Costume Jewelry
Costume jewelry is jewelry that is made to look expensive, but in fact is not at all. As such, it can be used for a variety of different reasons, most often for costume purposes. For example, say that you are going to a party dressed as a princess, just as you used to do as a child. Your costume jewelry might consist of a tiara, and necklace and bracelet made out of faux diamonds or emeralds.
Costume jewelry can look quite inexpensive, too. If you are looking to attend a costume party in which you look quite outrageous, wear costume jewelry that looks as if it is going to break at any second. This would make for truly funny costume accessories.
Believe it or not, many of the seemingly expensive jewels that movie stars wore in the older movies were examples of costume jewelry. The reason for this was because movie studios were often more concerned with...