Necklaces and bracelets: the right size
Two tools to help you choose: where a necklace falls depending on its length, and how long a bracelet should be for your wrist. They are reference guidelines: trying pieces on at our shop is still the best way to choose.
Indicative drawing: the actual position depends on the person and the jewel.
Necklace length
For guidance only. The sizes suggested by this tool are approximate: build, fit and the design of the jewel vary from person to person, and equivalents between sizing systems may differ slightly. For a safe and precise choice, we recommend having your size taken at our shop by our qualified staff, using professional tools.
Measure your neck at its base, where a short necklace rests, just above the collarbones: tape snug but not tight. At the same length, a necklace falls lower on a slender neck and higher on a fuller one: move the slider to see it.
Required for high collars: measure your neck halfway up, where you will wear the collar, with the tape snug but not tight. The neck is narrower higher up: that is where a collar is held in place.
How to measure
- Start from a necklace you love to wear. Lay it flat, fastened, and measure from end to end including the clasp.
- Or use a piece of string. Place it around your neck and let it fall to where you would like the jewel; mark where it meets and measure the string with a tape measure.
- With a pendant take its height into account: the pendant adds to the drop of the chain and hangs lower.
Bracelet type
Wrist circumference
How you want to wear it
For guidance only. The sizes suggested by this tool are approximate: build, fit and the design of the jewel vary from person to person, and equivalents between sizing systems may differ slightly. For a safe and precise choice, we recommend having your size taken at our shop by our qualified staff, using professional tools.
How to measure your wrist
- A tape measure or a piece of string around your wrist, where you will wear the bracelet: usually just below the wrist bone.
- Snug but not tight: the tape should follow the skin without pressing into it.
- With string mark where it overlaps and measure it flat against a ruler. Your two wrists may differ slightly: measure the one you will wear it on.
How the tool works
There is no official standard for necklace and bracelet sizes: the boundaries between categories vary by a few centimeters. The reference ranges start from a 30 cm collar, so they refer to a slender neck: the tool recalculates them for the neck circumference you choose, keeping each category at the same distance from the neck, and never suggests a necklace shorter than the neck plus 1 cm, the minimum margin we consider necessary to fasten it without tightness. The texts, calculations and design of this tool are our own; the illustrations of the bust and hand belong to our shop; the position of the necklace in the drawing is an indicative geometric estimate.