Bling or no bling?

debodun said:
Do you think people nowadays wear too much jewelry, just right, or not enough?
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I think there are people who wear no jewellery, people who wear a bit and people who wear loads of it.

Just personal choice.

I do wear several rings and a small necklace and sleeper earrings, all of which I rarely take off. Also a watch and a silver bracelet which I wear nearly every day.
Sounds a lot, all written down.

Not a fan of those huge hoop earnings myself.
 

During my first Saturn return, 29, I was playing guitar in a show band on the south and east coast. I wore a white tuxedo with a cool hat and cool shoes. It was 1983 and CB's and ear piercings were popular. I got my left ear pierced and worn a gold stud. When I quit the guitar gig, and became a monk I wore all kinds of different earrings. Many of them dangled a inch or two with some symbol or design on it. I ended up wearing a medium gold ring from about 40-55. No more after that. :)
 
I have always loved both real and costume jewelry. I used to have a standing jewelry box to hold everything. Now retired I gave away most of the costume jewelry. I gave my Dil some of my gold jewelry, kept my favorite pieces and sold the rest.
 
My only bling consists of an $8.97 Timex watch. Nope, no earrings, or piercings. I did have some big Taurus pendants, but they've been lost since 70s. I did have a high school class ring. But the day I got it, I had a snowball fight, and it wasn't on my finger when hostilities subsided.
It's kind of strange; but, today, guys have to have a huge watch- the bigger the better- even when the time on their phone.
 
I gave my dil last Xmas, I think, my mother's diamond necklace. One lovely diamond that had come from her second wedding ring from dad. I didn't want to die and have people who found me to take it and dil wouldn't know it is there, so I gave it away. If I ever have occasion to wear it, I will ask her, but can't think of any event at all. My grandson's wedding, I should live so long.
 
When I was a kid, I would have loved to have had a ring and a watch, but in the 1950’s boys just didn’t wear much jewelry, plus the only cheap rings were out of cereal boxes back then. I saved, and bought my first watch when I was about ten out of a five-and-dime store. It was a cheap mechanical watch that lost about ten minutes a day, but I loved it!

When I was growing up, the only guys who wore earrings were gays in Greenwich Village In New York. Today, you see guys with not only earrings but also facial piercings and plugs in their ear lobes, some very sizable! I still have trouble knowing where to put my eyes when talking to someone sporting enormous ear plugs and maybe a nasal piercing or two. I feel like I’m conversing with a parts store… 🙄

So times have changed! Personally, I wear a watch, ring, and often a bracelet, but nothing piercing a fleshy part… 😸
 
Well if they are wearing bling, it is outshone by all the tatoos on their bodies. You know, I always thought that if you were at work, you would not be allowed to have tatoos all over your arms, legs. I thought you had to be professional looking. Now at the local library, the librarians have tatoos and one has a ring through her nose, not a little delicate one, but like a bull would have.
 
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