Jewelry is any piece of adornment that a person wears such as rings, earrings, bracelets, necklaces, or watches. It can also be worn for decorative purposes as in the case of brooches. People wear jewelry for many reasons.Humans have used jewellery for a number of different reasons Many items of jewellery, such as brooches and buckles, originated as purely functional items, but evolved into decorative items as their functional requirement diminished. Jewellery can symbolise group membership (as in the case, of the Christian crucifix or the Jewish Star of David) or status (as in the case of chains of office, or the Western practice of married people wearing wedding rings).

• functional, generally to fix clothing or hair in place.
• as a marker of social status and personal status, as with a wedding ring
• as a signifier of some form of affiliation, whether ethnic, religious or social
• to provide talismanic protection.
• as an artistic display