Fitkitty Culture A Little Love Heart Locket Necklace — Floral Etched Gold-Tone

A half-inch gold-tone heart locket with floral etching, on a chain that adjusts between 16 and 18 inches.

Highlights

• ✓Half-inch heart pendant — 1.3 cm, which is the size that layers: small enough to sit above or below another chain without the two arguing.
• ✓Floral etching — the detail is cut into the surface rather than applied, so it reads as a vintage piece rather than a new one.
• ✓Adjustable 16 to 18 inches — 41 to 46 cm, so it sits at the base of the throat at its shortest and just below the collarbone at its longest.
• ✓Lobster clasp — the closure you can work one-handed, which matters more on a short chain than a long one.
• ✓Gold-tone metal — a warm finish that reads gold against both cool and warm skin, and sits easily with the gold-tone pieces most people already wear.

A piece this size is for wearing constantly rather than occasionally. On its own with an open collar it is quiet; layered under a longer chain it adds the small, close-to-the-throat point that a stack usually lacks. Heart lockets also make a straightforward gift, because there is no size to get right.

For something longer in the same register, the Retro Cherry Charm Necklace layers well with it. The rest of the jewelry sits in Fine and Fashion Jewelry and Jewelry and Watches, and there are more small gifts in the Gift Shop.

A gold-tone finish is a surface, so treat it like one: perfume and lotion go on first and dry before the necklace goes on, and a dry cloth after wearing does more for it than any cleaner.