Not.
I don’t get the appeal or the exorbitant pricing of it? Does anyone really buy it as an investment? It seems like most jewelry pieces, like cars, start losing value as soon as you buy them. I can see how it was a thing in the middle ages, but why is it still a part of so many human rituals?
Do you wear jewelery? I find most of it uncomfortable.
Please share your opinions and thoughts on why humans are still into jewelry…
I wear cheap ass jewelry because I always lose or break it. Nothing tacky, though, it's usually very subtle.
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Not. Feels odd.
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Wear a cheap functional watch to tell time and that's it.
To each their own - I can understand some people wanting to feel pretty but damn, if you're sporting a $30,000 watch on your wrist, you better be packing and know judo, cause you're a target.
Exactly, any jewelry worth having is not worth wearing since it is just a magnet for trouble.
shareThis would be my concern, not that I can afford anything beyond a Timex for the purpose of telling the time. I realize that today many people use their phones for the time, but my phone is not always at hand. Besides, it's quicker to look at my wrist than it is to pull out my phone from wherever.
shareLooks good, but is highly uncomfortable, so I'm in the no camp, I do not dig it.
shareI only wear a wedding band.
shareDon't think to much of it, but it's so much easier not using it
shareHumans are into jewelry because it's pretty, shiny, and sometimes adds to a person's looks. It also is a way to let someone know what class or subculture you belong to without even saying a word.
I wear small hoop earrings all the time (studs poke into my neck if I sleep with them on at night) because the clasps are easy to latch or unlatch, and I like the design. I also like necklaces with pendants on them. I sometimes wear rings, but they really bother my fingers. I have busy hands (love to craft, type, etc.) so I guess, despite being pretty, rings and nail polish aren't really in the cards for me. I can sometimes tolerate bracelets or a hair elastic on my left wrist, but otherwise, those bother me too. You can imagine the issues wristwatches have given me in the past. I never wear toe rings, and you couldn't pay me to pierce anything other than my earlobes. I have no desire to pierce any other part of my body.
I'm not a fan of wearing large, very obviously fake jewels (like the kind you could get from a capsule prize machine or craft store). I've been told anything larger than your pinky nail looks tacky. If I wear faux jewels, I wear the kind that could fool you into looking real.
I can't wear really super-cheap jewelry because of my nickle allergy. Any time I want to wear something that's not 14 carat gold, I have to make sure it's hypo-allergenic. I haven't had many opportunities to wear "folk" jewelry, like leather cords and bone or jade pendants, but then again, I don't have any. I can tolerate choker necklaces, but I'm always careful on the sizing.
I dig it, but not really to wear since I don't load myself down with it. I appreciate the artistic and historical aspects that each era of jewelry has brought. Also, gemstones and precious metals in their crude forms have their own fascinating stories and histories. Just about the best nonfiction book I have ever read was a book called Brilliance and Fire: A Biography of Diamonds by Rachelle Bergstein.
As far as explaining why people are still so much into jewelry, I think its entrenched connection to love and romance is one reason it keeps going strong. I'm not sure that it would be as much of a force if it didn't have that symbolism making it a cultural expectation. The DeBeers ad campaign is evidence.