Can You Wear Gold and Silver Accessories Together?

Fashion mishaps often happen with either the wrong choice of style, wrong color combination, mismatched wardrobe, and mismatched accessories.

The common (and old) rule for accessories or jewelry is to never wear gold and silver jewelry together. But with the trend nowadays, a lot of women are seen wearing gold with silver bangles. Let's admit it, it does look nice. So, what is the rule now? Should silver and gold go together or not?

Nowadays, with women's accessories, it's safe to just forget all about it - forget about the so-called rule on mixing accessories. Besides, the trend these days are all about mixing and matching! With all the fashionable jewelry and accessories out there, it would really be a shame to wear them only with some pieces. These days, women need not be afraid to layer silver and gold - be it with bangles, necklaces or other pieces of jewelry.

While breaking some old fashion rules is now accepted, let's face it, there are still some people who have a preference for one type of jewelry over the other. For instance, some women feel that gold doesn't look good on their pale skin, thus, so they only wear silver or white gold jewelry.

Again, it's perfectly alright to mix silver with gold. For one, many top jewelry designers and jewelry manufacturers use gold and silver (or white gold) on the same jewelry piece. There is no reason why women cannot wear gold and silver jewelry at the same time.

But to some women who want to break the old don't-mix-silver-with-gold rule but want to play it safe, they can always mix silver with white gold. Such a combination never clashes and looks elegant at the same time.

While women are a combination of adventurous and reserved personalities when it comes to trying new trends in fashion, men are a bit more on the conservative type - simply because their accessories are pretty basic - watch, ring, and cufflinks.

Imagine seeing a man in a suit also wearing a gold watch with a silver ring. It may not look obvious from afar, but once he gets upclose you would see the difference.

Gold is actually one of the basic and safest color for an accessory to choose for a man's attire. The only rule though in wearing men's gold accessories is that it should match well with other ones you're wearing For example, if a man chooses to wear gold cufflinks, he has to make sure that they match with the color of his belt buckle, and other pieces of jewelry he's wearing, like a gold-tone wristwatch, bracelet, or ring. On the other hand, if he's wearing silver cufflinks, all other accessories should be silver-toned as well.