Bangles in Laad Bazaar, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. The fixed price signs indicate that there is no bargaining allowed, in, from left, Urdu, Hindi, Arabic and English. Photo taken by David Boyk in 2003.

Bangles are ornaments worn by women on their arms and wrists. They are usually circular in shape, and, unlike bracelets, are not flexible. Image File history File links Bangles in Laad Bazaar, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. ... Image File history File links Bangles in Laad Bazaar, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. ... Laad - as in pamper is an appropriate name for a marketplace meant to pamper women. ... Hyderabad (హైదరాబాదు in Telugu, حیدراباد in Urdu), the 5th largest metropolis of India [1], is the capital of the state of Andhra Pradesh. ... Andhra Pradesh (ఆంధ్ర ప్రదేశం in Telugu) (Āndhra Prādesh), a state in South India, lies between 12°41 and 22°N latitude and 77° and 84°40E longitude . ... Fixed price is a phrase used in Indian English to mean that no bargaining is allowed over the price of a good or, less commonly, a service. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Hindi (हिन्दी) is a language spoken mainly in North and Central India. ... Arabic (العربية al-arabiyyah, or less formally arabi) is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... In human anatomy, the wrist is the flexible and narrower connection between the forearm and the hand. ... Sarmatian bracelets from the Hermitage Museum. ...

Bangles are part of the traditional Indian jewelry. Indian bangles are usually worn in pairs, one or more on each arm, and single bangles are rarely sold. They are made of numerous precious as well as non-precious materials like gold, silver, platinum, glass, wood, ferrous metals, plastic, etc. Most Indian women prefer to wear either gold or glass bangles or both in combination. Though nowadays bangles made from plastic are slowly replacing those made by glass, the glass ones are still preffered for traditional functions like marriages and at festivals. General Name, Symbol, Number gold, Au, 79 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 6, d Appearance metallic yellow Atomic mass 196. ... General Name, Symbol, Number silver, Ag, 47 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 5, d Appearance lustrous white metal Atomic mass 107. ... General Name, Symbol, Number platinum, Pt, 78 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 10, 6, d Appearance grayish white Atomic mass 195. ... The materials definition of a glass is a uniform amorphous solid material, usually produced when a suitably viscous molten material cools very rapidly, thereby not giving enough time for a regular crystal lattice to form. ... A tree trunk as found at the Veluwe, The Netherlands Wood is an organic material found as the primary content of the stems of woody plants, especially trees, but also shrubs. ... General Name, Symbol, Number iron, Fe, 26 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 8, 4, d Appearance lustrous metallic with a grayish tinge Atomic mass 55. ... Plastic is a term that covers a range of synthetic or semi-synthetic polymerization products. ...

Gold bangles are most popular with Indian women. They range from plain and simple to extremely artistic and intricate. They are often studded with precious and semi-precious stones like diamonds, gems and pearls. A scattering of round-brilliant cut diamonds shows off the many reflecting facets. ... GEM redirects here. ... For other things called pearl, see pearl (disambiguation). ...

The more expensive bangles that are in gold and silver(higher quality content-precious material)make an substanial jingling sound . In the case of cheap, imitation jewelry that is usually common in which you see everybody wearing a set, those tend to make a tinny sound (rather than a more substantial sound) when you jingled.

A bangle normally as worn by people all over is simply an inflexible piece of jewelry worn around the wrist. However, in many cultures especially in the Arabian Peninsula and more importantly in South Asia bangles have evolved into a various types in which different ones are used in different occasions.

See also

• The Bangles