Want to rock the beach like a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model? It’s not hard to duplicate Bar Refaeli’s beach look with a few well-chosen jewelry accessories to coordinate with the beach-going swimsuit.
Coordinating Jewelry Metals with Fabric Color
Some metals just don’t look good with certain colors. Usually, neutral fabric colors can be combined with silver or gold jewelry for a harmonious look. However, there is not a tone, shade or tint of gray that looks good with yellow gold jewelry. Similarly taupe does looks best with yellow gold jewelry. Black and white look great with either silver or gold.
Bar Refaeli wears a vibrant sunflower gold swimsuit with muted gold embroidery embellishments and round gold coin-like accents. The bright yellow of the fabric and the muted gold combine to create a monochromic look. This shade of yellow should never be worn with silver toned jewelry.
Bar Refaeli's Gold Coin Necklaces
Picking up the gold-coin theme from the swimsuit, the model was styled with two gold coin necklaces. Both are hung on simple link chains and are choker-style. The higher of the two necklaces is hung with one gold charm. The second is hung with multiple smaller gold charms. If the jewelry lover is handy this is not a hard look to recreate with linked chains, charms and jump rings.
Prefer to purchase the necklaces? Here are two suggestions from the Sundance Catalog:
- 24kt gold vermeil round sun and moon charms. Suspending one from each of two vermeil chains. The chains are 16 inches and 18 inches in length
- Wear one of the sun and moon charmed chains with the Stream of Gold Necklace. The Stream of Gold necklace is 31 inches in length and looks great doubled up choker style.
Getting Jewelry Wet
Bar Refaeli’s swimsuit is by Tara Matthews and is hand-wash. If the beachgoer is wearing a Tara Matthews swimsuit, getting into the water is probably not going to be an option. Not exactly cheap, Matthews' swimwear retails for upwards to $500.
Wearing any type of jewelry into a chlorinated pool is not recommended. If the wearer must, make sure the jewelry is thoroughly rinsed off in clear water immediately after leaving the pool. Similarly, most jewelry is not suited to spend an extended amount of time in salt water. The rinsing rule applies here as well. Additionally, it’s never a good idea to wear anything that is shiny or sparkly in the ocean since the flashing appearance can get the attention of sharks.
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