The History of Anklets

This time, we will find out more about interesting information about anklets.

An anklet (in Arabic: خلخال), ankle chain, or ankle bracelet is an ornament worn around the ankle. Barefoot anklets and toe rings historically have been worn for centuries by girls and women in Egypt and Arab world especially in Bedouin and countryside and married women in India, though in the United States both casual and more formal anklets became fashionable in the late twentieth century. While in western popular culture both younger men and women may wear casual leather anklets, they are popular among barefoot women. Formal anklets (silver, gold, beads) are common women’s fashion jewelry.[citation needed] Anklets are an important jewellery in Indian marriages worn along with saris.

Much more rarely, the ankle chains are joined by a stretch of chain to limit the step. This practice was once more prevalent in the Middle East, where the effect was to give a ‘feminine’ short tripping step. Today a few western women follow this practice, but rarely in public. A very few people even have ‘permanent’, e.g. soldered-on, ankle chains, and more rarely still, so is the connecting chain.

Bronze anklets are visible as early as the Bronze Age in temperate Europe, in an area roughly along the Danube, in the Alpine foreland, up the Rhine to the Atlantic, and also down the Rhône (Sherratt, 2001). These were found among hoards in these areas, along with other bronze items characteristic of this time (c. 1800 BCE onwards), and are attributable to the Tumulus culture that spread across this region.

A first-century CE epic of Tamil literature called Cilappatikaram (“The story of the anklet”) dealt with a woman whose husband was killed while trying to sell one of her anklets to a dishonest goldsmith. The anklets are described in great detail in the poem.

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