When a woman dresses up, she wants to look elegant. Elegance usually implies expense-an expensive couture gown, and expensive jewels. However, elegance can also be achieved on a budget. To start with, instead of diamonds, rhinestone jewelry is perfectly acceptable. An even smaller budget is needed if the elegance comes through the purchase of wholesale rhinestone jewelry.

At the turn of the Twentieth Century, dressing up was a big production. Dresses were long and complex, with, through the years, hoops, bustles, lace and embroidery, mutton leg sleeves, and other bulky decorations. In the 1920s, 1926 to be exact, new era dawned. Coco Chanel came up with the quintessential dress-up dress: the little black dress. Starting around this time, women began to rebel against the confining clothing that they had worn throughout history. They began wearing simpler, shorter, more comfortable dresses. This was just the time when Coco Chanel designed a soft jersey dress that was sleeveless, had a wide neck, and ended just above the knee. Up to this time, women had never exposed this much of the arms, shoulders, neck, and legs.

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