Summer Accessory Layering, Part 1: Necklaces

What do you do when it’s hot but you still want to look fly? Style your accessories, not your clothes!

Good styling is all about layering. But when it’s hot, we don’t want to layer our clothes! So here’s an idea: layer on the accessories to add some style to your outfit.

This is part one of our summer accessory layering series. First, we’re doing a refresher course on layering necklaces! This trend has not gone away, so here are some tips and tricks to layer your neck with style and ease.

Necklace layering

pile them on! Hot tips to pull this off are:

  • chains of different lengths

  • chains of different metals/colors

  • beaded or pearl necklaces on top of chains to add dimension and color

  • different chain textures/types.

Sweet and juicy pairings for summer:

The fruit necklace is on a shorter chain: measuring 16” long, it hits just below the collarbone. Comes in sterling silver or gold-fill in 3 cute fruits: yuzu lemon (a citrine stone), peach (a light orange carnelian agate stone), and nectarine (a red carnelian agate stone). Each necklace is adorned with a tiny hand-enameled green leaf.

The leaf necklace is A hand-enameled green glass leaf riveted to a leaf pendant in sterling silver or brass. Available on a gold-fill chain or sterling silver chain. This necklace is 18” long and hits around mid-sternum.

The yucca necklace can be worn at two longer lengths: 18” or 20”. Its delicate chain in sterling silver or gold fill makes it the IDEAL necklace for layering. Sweet little hand cut, soldered and stamped pendant with a yucca flower in sterling silver or brass. 

pair different chain lengths and chain textures. Here is the shorter fruit necklace at 16” long, and the longer yucca necklace worn at 20”.

pair the Ninlil collar choker necklace with a longer 18” chain, like the leaf necklace or the Unikko necklace.

The yucca necklace layered here in silver and gold color ways to show the 18” length and the 20” length. Mixing metals is yet another tip for necklace layering!

Pair the chain link choker with a longer, delicate chain necklace like the yucca necklace.

But wait, there’s more!

don’t forget about bolo ties! These fun necktie necklaces can be used for layering too!