How to wear pearl jewellery...

[Cyril Roger Brossard]

An article ByPurvaja Sawant, TNN | Feb 9, 2013, 12.00 AM IST


While diamonds are a girl's best friend, pearls are said to be classy jewels for elderly women or brides! But you can also make a fashion statement with a string of pearls too, provided you wear them the right way.

As hair accessories: If you don't want to wear grandma's string of pearls in your neck, you can sport this fashion, more stylishly, in your hair! Bobby pins decorated with pearl are a great option. You can enhance your evening up-do with a few of these pins. If you are artistic, buy a few plain pins, some faux pearls in the colours of your choice and stick them with super glue in patterns of your choice.

Pearls with denims: If you want to posh up your casual jeans, just add some pearl jewellery to your look. Choose a pair of well-fitted black skinnys, suitable heels, a solid colour silk blouse and a blazer. Accessorise this look with a double string of delicate looking pearls!

Opt for coloured pearls: If you don't want to go for classic white pearls, why not choose faux pearls that come in variety of colours and sizes. From neon to pastel shades, you can select the pearls of your choice and make necklaces, bracelets or earrings. This will add a special, personal touch to your outfit.

 

[CLICLASP]

Sorry but faux pearls = vulgar,
now it's so easy to find cheap FW pearls, definitly not the french chic anyway, or not the right place to put faux pearls forward , sorry

 

[Caitlin]

We do better suggestions and write ups in our posts. Not my favorite article

 

[Daddys Little Pearl]

So there is a "wrong" way to wear pearls? I think not. I can't image any occasion when pearls of some type could not be worn. OK, maybe not while in a sweat exercising in a gym, or in a chlorine water swimming pool. I bet there are even some people who might sleep in them!
I had on my black sweat pants and top the other day, was not in the mood to dress up at the antique shop, so I threw on a strand of dyed multicolor freshwaters. Everyone noticed the pearls, no one noticed my outfit.
So, maybe we don't actually "wear" pearls, maybe the pearls just let us tag along with them.

 

[Cyril Roger Brossard]

yes, yes, and yes, I could not agree more with the raging war on imitations... (link to my point of view, post#7).

HongQiao Pearl Market would then be a haven for Chinese pearl admirer… then again and ‘sadly’ I am not one of them, as Chinese product have an after taste of 'faux' in my mind.
I know that pearl production in China isn’t to be associated with such extreme word but again considering the market share of freshwater Chinese pearl in our business, and the fact that such are also found worldwide and sold under falsehood and through deception as original local pearls (Caitlin as repeated this more than once), I fail to see how I could consider cheap Chinese pearl anything more than slightly above (since they indeed come from mollusk) most of the cheap product coming from China, some are counterfeit, most are lower quality product with short life expectancy, and here I am referring specifically to solar panel (e.g Suntech), electronics (cellphone, flash drive and other), engines (combustion mostly) and apparels, but you may not have noticed such as most of those products would never be exported to the U.S., Europe or Canada.
Now let’s look at the writing of Ms. Purvaja Sawant… Definitely not an article that would dent the pearl market in my opinion, most likely oriented for younger people, teenager maybe, mean to say people that do not have an income and for whom 'shiny' is good enough, look at the range of article wrote by Ms. Purvaja Sawant and you’ll see that unlike you, she is not a pearl expert.
Yes Faux may be vulgaire or mauvais gout, but then again chinese pearls sold as genuine local pearl are what exactly?

By Dan Harris on March 8th, 2012
What this means is that many of these factories are cutting corners. Much of the bad product in these cases is not due to bad production, but rather to bad components. The factory that makes the sweaters is using lesser wool to save costs and that doesn’t work. The factory that makes the shoes is using a lower grade leather and that doesn’t work. The factory that makes the plastic toy is using a lower grade plastic. And on and on and all of this without giving any advance notice to the American buyer. Make no mistake, for the first time in a long time, quality fade seems to be on the rise in certain sectors in China.
But it gets worse.
In the old days when a Chinese factory provided bad product, they would usually eventually admit it, and blame it on either a subcontractor or a supplier. Now they deny it and threaten retribution if they are not paid whatever is still “owed” by their American buyer.

 

[Kaththee]

Sorry but faux pearls = vulgar,
now it's so easy to find cheap FW pearls, definitly not the french chic anyway, or not the right place to put faux pearls forward , sorry

While is is easy to find cheap FW pearls, I don't think that faux pearls are vulgar in anyway whatsoever. If you care about fashion and style(not everyone does I know), how something is worn is more important than what is worn. I collect costume jewelry as well as fine jewelry. I feel just as beautiful and chic in my costume pieces as I do in my fine jewelry. Carolina Herrera, Chanel, and Alexander McQueen design and sell sophisticated and refined pieces with faux pearls. Many glamourous women wear faux pearls including Kate Middleton who wore them set with cubic zircons (go ahead clutch your real pearls) no less and in my opinion she looked lovely. There are as many examples of unfashionable and vulgar real pearls as there are examples of faux ones. As I stated before, the way you them is more important than if they are real or faux. The writer of the article, Sawant was trying to save us from the grandma look of graduated pearls with a twin set and even that look could be cute if one had a cool retro vibe going. I contend that even a humble strand of faux pearls from Belk would not be vulgar with the right clothing. Although I love the luxury of real pearls, I would rather wear faux pearls that were the right size, color and style for my clothes than wear a real strand that got lost or looked like an after thought. I have a large jewelry collection of fine and faux, and I won't reach for a piece that is real over the piece that looks impeccable. As a matter of fact, it doesn't even occur to me. For me the fun is choosing that perfect piece that ties everything together.

 

[theseventhsphinx]

While is is easy to find cheap FW pearls, I don't think that faux pearls are vulgar in anyway whatsoever. If you care about fashion and style(not everyone does I know), how something is worn is more important than what is worn. I collect costume jewelry as well as fine jewelry. I feel just as beautiful and chic in my costume pieces as I do in my fine jewelry. Carolina Herrera, Chanel, and Alexander McQueen design and sell sophisticated and refined pieces with faux pearls. Many glamourous women wear faux pearls including Kate Middleton who wore them set with cubic zircons (go ahead clutch your real pearls) no less and in my opinion she looked lovely. There are as many examples of unfashionable and vulgar real pearls as there are examples of faux ones. As I stated before, the way you them is more important than if they are real or faux. The writer of the article, Sawant was trying to save us from the grandma look of graduated pearls with a twin set and even that look could be cute if one had a cool retro vibe going. I contend that even a humble strand of faux pearls from Belk would not be vulgar with the right clothing. Although I love the luxury of real pearls, I would rather wear faux pearls that were the right size, color and style for my clothes than wear a real strand that got lost or looked like an after thought. I have a large jewelry collection of fine and faux, and I won't reach for a piece that is real over the piece that looks impeccable. As a matter of fact, it doesn't even occur to me. For me the fun is choosing that perfect piece that ties everything together.

Another great example of a chic faux pearl wearer is Michelle Obama. Totally agree with what you say here, Kaththee.

 

[Caitlin]

We have lately added a thread on faux pearls. I wonder if it would be appropriate to have a forum for them........

 

[bluidragon]

This is a charming thought provoking comment. I need to remember this line. Thank you...

 

[bluidragon]

It is true that faux pearls are awful in most settings. however, I would rather wear faux pearls on a hair pin than think my lovely cultured pearl is in my hair ready to be combed out and lost forever. The appearance of pearls can be noted on run-ways and on red carpets. How many movie stars would wear their finest pearls in their hair unless they were insured. Elizabeth Taylor wore her gorgeous pearl that Richard Burton bought her and had it stuck in her hair. I can assure you, if it fell out, Richard would have divorced her on the spot.

 

[bluidragon]

I went to e-boutique.anna-tabakhove.com. i did not see a hair clip device to with a cultured or freshwater pearls. How would best wear pearls in your hair? I thought of pinning a bacelet into my hair but was concerned about the devil, hairspray. bluidragon

 

[bluidragon]

I think it is a great forum on faux pearls. I personally don't like them but did buy a cheap bracelet of plastic pearls on my wedding day as I could not afford the same bracelet in real pearls.