Vintage Premier Designs Herringbone Chain 17" Chain Necklace Jewelry Gold plated

The Premier Designs Herringbone Chain 17 Necklace is a vintage, flat fashion-jewelry piece typically found in gold-tone plating. It features a width of 6mm, weighs around 15g, and is secured by a standard lobster claw closure. While Premier Designs was an American company headquartered and operated out of Irving, Texas, their jewelry components and chains were manufactured overseas, primarily in East Asian countries like South Korea and China. This vintage items from their early peak years in the late 1980s and 1990s included many of their classic herringbone and snake chains were made in Korea. The Herringbone Trend (1980s1990s): Highly reflective, flat metal chains reached peak mainstream popularity during this era. Premier Designs modeled much of its early inventory after these exact high-fashion, liquid-metal trends. Because production happened in overseas costume-jewelry facilities, the base layers of these chains are composed of affordable brass or copper-based metal alloys, which were then barrel-plated with a thin laminate of yellow gold-tone or silver-tone material.