Wearing Amethyst with Purple

Posted by Maire Loughran Oct 14, 2006

I was flipping through the current edition of the MJSA (Manufacturing Jewelers and Suppliers of America) Journal and they also remarked on the color combinations of gemstones at the Emmy Awards.

As I note in my article explaining how to coordinate gemstone jewelry with your outfit, muted jewel like colors are very popular this winter.

Rather than use the complementary color method to choose gemstone jewelry you can also use the mono-chromatic method. This method was used to good effect at the Emmy's - pairing muted plum colored gowns with amethyst gemstones.

Mono-chromatic means to select hues using any shade, tint or tone of that particular hue. A tint = the color plus white; tone = the color + gray and shade = the color + black.

So to pair amethyst gemstones with a muted plum gown would be an example of a hue (the purple amethyst) with a shade: plum (purple + black).