Lucky Beckoning
Dance Charms – Gift Ideas For Young Dancers
Are you searching for a gift for a young ballerina? The ideal gift may be a surprise to you – charms.
I previously ran a dance outlet and my best-seller was a silver ballet shoe charm necklace. Parents and young girls alike loved it!
That was well before today’s enthusiasm for charms such as Pandora and Troll. So, considering a ballet charm was so popular then, I can only guess how popular it would be now!
Now, you’ll find a lot of dancing charms and charm bracelets. There are ballet slippers (one shoe or two!), ballerinas in a variety of positions, and tutus for ballet dancers. For flamenco lovers, there are flamenco fans and occasionally, flamenco dancers. I’ve seen ballroom and tap dancers, and shoes for tap, tango, Irish and Scottish dancing.
There’s a lot less choice in Pandora charms, or even in the copycat makes. Pandora charms have to be fat to allow for the hole through the middle, so it’s difficult to design a delicate charm to reflect the nature of dancing. I have seen some pointe shoe charms but they are too chunky for my taste!
You will find quite a number of Pandora charms engraved with the word ‘dance’ – and their Murano glass beads have gorgeous swirling colors which seem to be dancing all by themselves!
You’ll sometimes hear the expression “lucky” charms. I always understood that meant charms in the shape of a four leaf clover or a horseshoe. However I was told the story of a woman who was given a charm bracelet for Christmas. It didn’t include a horseshoe, but she soon noticed that when she wore her bracelet, things went well -and when she didn’t wear it, went wrong. She didn’t tell anyone else, but it finally became so obvious, even her son commented! Her explanation was that the bracelet was given by her family, and the charms were chosen with love, so it was imbued with a special quality. Perhaps that’s a good reason to buy a charm bracelet!
By the way, if you’re having difficulty choosing between all the various charms – it may help to know that the ballet shoe pendant was always far more popular than similarly priced dancing figure pendants.
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