Pearls are a mans best friend!

VIVA Ems | 1st November 2018

 

Men, generally, should not wear jewellery. There is a danger they will look like Mr T.

 

Jewellery on men should look like something they saw while stalking for food across some savannah somewhere. It should be organic. That could mean that leather is involved, or wood, or pearls.

 

Now, normally, any real Englishman will turn white and run away at the idea of jewellery. And they are entirely correct. But a signet ring on the little finger is acceptable (if the carving is the Prince of Wales feathers heraldic badge and you are the Prince of Wales); a wooden beads on plaited chord bracelet bought on holiday is acceptable; a few rugged plain beads on a thin string of leather worn around the neck is acceptable. What is not acceptable? Anything with a lot of metal on display or anything sparkly. (so a cut diamond is naff while an uncut one would be acceptable.

 

Pearls area always acceptable, of course, on men, women or children. Ah-ha you may think, there’s some bias here, but pearls fit our criteria. They are modest and non-sparkly and organic. Fair enough you are unlikely to find one while stalking for food on the arid savannah but allow me a little leeway.

 

 

Pearls on men can be so formal they would be entirely at home at Buckingham Palace – a set of white pearl shirt studs to finish a formal dress shirt or to a buttonhole to add a modest something to a formal suit.

 

Many styles of cufflinks are possible from classics to designer and all manner of shapes, sizes and colours of pearl.

 

Those above use a modest amount of precious metal. But pearls are very happy strung onto leather.

 

Even the youngest can wear a lovely Tahitian pearl as a bracelet on leather.

 

And, finally, a real man can even wear a complete necklace of Tahitian pearls (though it does help when he is the pearl farmer who cultured them of course- Josh Humbert, who owns the kamoka pearl farm on Ahe atoll in French Polynesia.

 

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