Results: Are you going wear the choker necklace this spring/ summer?

Choker necklaces have been falling in out and fashion for thousands of years, literally. Long before they encircled the necks of goth girls in the 1990s or were made popular by the Princess of Wales in the late 1800s, chokers were donned by women in ancient civilizations, worn to protect what even back then they understood to be a very important part of the body, the neck. They are a style that cuts across many cultures--African, Indian and Western among them--and class lines. The history of the choker dates back thousands of years, to the world’s earliest civilizations, the Summer empire in Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. They put jewelry on parts of the body they felt needed protection--the throat, head, arms and ankles--and believed it infused them with special powers. This was especially true of gold jewelry, which ancient peoples associated with the sun, and lapis, which people in Egypt connected with the life-giving powers of the Nile River.