Noddy24 wrote:You people may be startled to know that I come from a family with strong opinions. Some of these views I ignore, others furrowed themselves in my developing brain.
1. Nice girls don't wear glitter (rhinestones). Wearing glitter before dark is an indication of double damnation.
2. Jewelery should indicate craftsmanship rather than wealth. If you are qualified to judge the cut and setting of a diamond, you may wear a diamond. If not, content yourself with jewelery that displays good taste and wit. I wear cameos when I'm all gussied up.*
3. Pierced ears are appropriate for sailors. If a sailor is shipwrecked and washes ashore, a gold ring can be sold to provide money for burial expenses and masses for his soul.
4. Pierced ears are dangerous because if the lower orders riot they will grab earrings from the upper orders, tearing the ear lobes. (My grandmother was very impressed by Bulwer-Lytton's Last Days of Pompei)
*Once upon a time when a woman proposed to a man during leap year and he turned her down, he gave her a cameo to show that there were no hard feelings. Most of my cameos are family pieces, inherited rather than extorted.
I love this summary. Part of me follows this line of thinking naturally.
The other part just loves jewelry. I don't own any good jewels. I have some well crafted items, and a few sort of victorian old rings. I made the error of telling my nonmonied husband that I loved silver. Better I should have mentioned rubies and emeralds, oh well. I have quite a bit of unique silver from a local craftsman, and some I bought myself on various trips to Mexico.
But then, folks, the real me --- On Venice Beach boardwalk, famed for rollerskating phenomenon, breakdancing of old, the chainsaw juggler, and long before, poetry houses, and before that, rumrunners...
there was a store called Reckless Woman. They had a wall of cheapo garish earrings for $1.00 each. I loved it! I still have some great stuff from there, because if you spent up to $10.00, you could get some strong looking design, if not platinum.
Wearing this stuff gets trickier I suppose if you are in a corporate setting, but then, hey, I rarely have to give presentations in these settings and if I do, I am after all, a designer. One interesting item...
: natural sandals; and, foot wraps. 
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