Jewels of the Month, Part 2: Anklet Season

I want to highlight one of the styles I introduced in yesterday’s post: the ankle bracelet, aka anklet.

My barbed wire anklet in platinum and diamonds. Click to shop.

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 years, “arm parties” of bracelets; “finger parties” of rings; hand jewelry; ears full of studs, earring jackets, ear climbers and ear cuffs; layers and layers of necklaces; and body chains. Every body part has been loaded with jewelry except for the leg. The poor leg. THINK OF THE LEG FOR GOD’S SAKE!

My barbed wire anklet in 18K yellow gold and diamonds. Click to shop.

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.

My silver barbed wire anklet. Click to shop.

Before the weather warmed up, Eryn wore her anklet over socks.

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 de rigueur.  Like I said yesterday, 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.

Shop my anklets here!