Bangle bracelets come in different styles and designs. There are designs that have clasps and there are designs that allow you to simply and easily slip your wrist through. There are wide silver bangles, and there are also thin bangles.
Sterling silver bangle bracelets are a great wear for any occasion, and they are very flexible, too, meaning, they can blend well with any attire, any skin color, any time of the day.
The sheer variety of wristlets of India is matchless anywhere in the world. Besides being a mark of a married woman, these have tremendous amorous and romantic connotation. In classical Indian poetry, a woman's pining for union with her husband or lover, is indicated by bracelets slipping from her wrist due to her becoming thin in the agony of separation from him. The tinkling sound of women's bangles is full of significant messages expressing her presence, her wish for attention, her anger or her desire to exchange glances. One of the most amazing range of technical devices for locking and unlocking an ornament is found in wristlets.
 

Silver Bangle Bracelet

A simple bangle is slipped on to the wrist by mere pressure, occasionally over a thin coating of oil applied to the hand. Some wristlets have a gap between the two ends from where these are slipped on to the wrist from its side. Some hollow bracelets, having similar loose ends are twisted by pulling the two ends in opposite directions and then slipped over the wrist.
In the case where a wearer wishes to have a close-fitting bracelet, the goldsmith creates a device whereby it opens almost into two parts in which one end of one part is attached to that of the second part with hinges, and when the wearer has wrapped it around the wrist in this position, the open part is pressed over a knob where it is clipped, dovetailed or screwed to ensure locking.

The more handsome variety usually comprised a prominent pendant attached to a circular ring which in turn may have further smaller pendants or other decorative elements affixed to the outer rim. Often the screw or the pin that locks the bracelet is itself a highly decorative element, not distinguishable as a separate part but an integral component of the overall design.
In most cases, the single-tier bracelet, when hollow, is adorned with repousse work motifs, and when solid with engraving. In two- tiered bracelets, the outer rim is usually adorned with additional lobes, pendants, jingle bells or bunches (guchcha) of small, hollow balls of silver tied together by silver-wire threading. This work gives the feeling of granulation but is lighter in weight due to the hollowness of the balls and the peculiar grid of horizontal and vertical thread work.
Rigid pen annular bracelets of circular or ovoid form, which are cast or forged with animal-head terminals, are an extremely archaic type.