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Originally Posted by Zeide Erskine I presume you have not looked at Crown Jewels lately. Men of power traditionally wore white pearl rings. |
Thing is, though, that kings and emperors can always wear pretty much whatever they want. After all, who's going to argue with them?
I'm not really a big history buff, but in the days of crown jewels, those natural pearls would have been really expensive, so only royalty could have afforded them. I'm guessing they were worn more as a sign of prestige than due to any aesthetic concerns. I would be curious to know, though, if the wealthy merchants who were contemporaries of the pearl-wearing royalty also wore pearls.
Of course, wearing or owning expensive things solely because of their value hardly died out with the days of kings and emperors. Still, given the strong modern feminine connotation of pearls in general, I would tend to think that white pearls would be a hard sell as men's jewelry. Heck, I'm not too crazy about the Tahitians-on-leather as neckwear. To me, someone like Pierce Brosnan can pull it off because he has such a macho look to begin with. The average male, though...