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Silver jewelry is elegant and beautiful, and when it’s polished regularly, it retains that right-from-the-jeweler shine. Here are several easy ways to keep your silver jewelry gleaming and looking tarnish-free.
Things You’ll Need:

    * Silver polishing cloth
    * Soft cloth
    * White toothpaste
    * Baking soda
    * Silver cleaner

Step1
Use a small amount of white toothpaste on a soft cloth and buff jewelry to a shine. Make sure to use a cloth rather than a toothbrush, because the bristles can sometimes scratch the soft metal surface of sterling jewelry.
Step2
Buy a silver polishing cloth. Sunshine and Connoisseurs, among others, make cloths treated with chemicals to combat the the natural tarnishing of silver. Cleaning your jewelry this way will take a little time and effort on your part, but will have your valuables looking shiny and beautiful.
Step3
Lay your Silver jewelry in an aluminum dish and sprinkle generously with baking soda. Boil a little water and pour over your baking-soda-coated jewelry. In a few seconds, your jewelry will be tarnish-free and shiny. Go the extra mile and follow up by buffing your jewelry for a few minutes with a silver polishing cloth.
Step4
Go to your local jeweler and buy a cleaner specially formulated for silver jewelry. These can come in the form of silver dips or silver polishing pastes. When using the dip, just do a quick in-and-out with your jewelry, followed by a buffing with a soft cloth. The paste can be used by rubbing it onto the jewelry, leaving for a few minutes and then buffing clean with a soft cloth.
Step5
Take it to Tiffany’s. When in doubt, the best thing to do is take in your Tiffany silver jewelry to be cleaned by one of the store’s professional cleaners. This eliminates all guesswork, and you won’t have to worry about damaging your jewelry.

The silver jewelry and accessories available at Blue Nile are made of beautiful sterling silver. For our collection, we have chosen classic designs created by some of the finest silver craftsmen. This guide will help you learn to identify quality in silver jewelry and accessories.

Buyer’s Tips

Sterling silver jewelry is the standard for beautiful high-quality silver jewelry. It’s over 90% pure silver, mixed with alloys to add strength and durability. And it won’t wear down, as silver plating can.

Pure silver, also called fine silver, is relatively soft, very malleable, and easily damaged so it is commonly combined with other metals to produce a more durable product. The most popular of these alloys is sterling silver, which consists of 92.5 percent silver and 7.5 percent copper. Although any metal can make up the 7.5 percent non-silver portion of sterling, centuries of experimentation have shown copper to be its best companion, improving the metal’s hardness and durability without affecting its beautiful color.

King Charles II, the monarch of 17th century who was famous for the form and function was known as the origin for the modern Tiffany Cuff Links. Men�s fashion in that century was shirts with lacy fronts and cuffs. Only a string is used as a tie to keep the cuff around the wrist. King Charles used an ornamental decorative button to pin the cuff of his coat to show more lace in his shirtsleeve. For the time being this is modified and the decorated buttons changed in to modern Tiffany Cuff Links. Today the cufflinks works as it was before but only adds the elegance to it.

The main use of the cufflinks is it holds the shirt cuff with the wrist.

But today we can say we are having buttons in our shirts, the buttons also serve as that of cufflinks to keep the cuff closed. When we have buttons in our shirt it is enough for us to keep the cuffs close.

But if we want to wear Tiffany Cuff Links in our shirt, there must be French cuffs or double cuffs with our shirt.

Single cuff shirts are also there but they have never taken off.

When you wear a shirt with French cuffs the first thing you notice is the extra material at the bottom of the sleeves. The cuffs are designed so that the flap material will extend to come near the hands. When you just fold the flap over the bottom of the sleeve it makes a perfect cuff.

The cuffs will meet at the outside edge; there you will find two button holes both at front and back. The only thing you will do is just line up the button holes and slide it in to the cufflink to hold the cuffs together.

A sharp man should not give importance to what he is wearing. The only thing we should take in count must be when we choose gold or silver cufflinks; we should match the color to our wrist watch. If your wristwatch band is made of leather then metal only matches to your ring.

When choosing Tiffany Cuff Links with color match with your shirt�s tone and match your tie also. When we use Tiffany Cuff Links with the dinner jacket in the evening time, you should match your cufflink with your inner white shirt or with your black dinner jacket. Now the fashion changes, so match gold or silver cufflinks with your dinner jacket.

We can choose the cufflinks for the wedding ceremony to match what the others wear for it, but not changing the rules much. The important thing we consider when we match cufflinks to the wedding party is to match the cufflinks to watch, ring, and shirt jacket also.

When buying a piece of sterling silver jewelry, it is so beautiful and shines. In time, that necklace loses its luster, and eventually tarnishes and becomes black. You can however clean it and restore its luster.
Steps

   1. Polish sterling silver by rubbing or buffing it regularly with a soft cotton cloth.
   2. Consider using a chemically treated cloth that you can buy anyplace that Sterling silver jewelry is sold as it makes the job easier.
   3. Understand that while sterling silver dips are fast and easy, many dips will remove the color from many gemstones that adorn the article. Also, if you leave the piece in too long, or fail to rinse it well, residues will remain when it dries. If you do use a dip, dip it in and out very fast and rinse it immediately in clean water followed by an immediate buffing to bring out the shine
   4. Repair a broken clasp by purchasing a replacement clasp. Clasps can be bought online or at a local craft supply store. Make sure you buy the same style and color as the broken one. If you have never been happy with that particular clasp, then buy an upgraded clasp that you would find easier to use

   5. Check the chain to notice how the links were put together. You will need to know this, so that you can assemble the chain after you repair it.
   6. Place the chain on a ceramic soldering board and use tweezers to put the two ends back together and squeeze the links until they are closed. Using your tweezers fit the two ends of the chain back together. Then squeeze the links closed.