For Lynn: Pairing pearls with jeans
Lynn commented.
"I'm trying to wear my jewelry more instead of saving it for "good" but not sure how to pair jeans with pearls or antique jade. Suggestions are welcome!"
She doesn't say what pearls she owns; the more casual varieties (baroques, keshis, a pearl 'chain', sticks, coins, mixed varieties) all work with jeans.
If she has round whites, she could wear them as is with a simple shirt, or layer. For ideas, see "Un-prissing your pearls", Part One and Part Two.
Here's six days of me in pearls and black or dark-wash blue jeans, just whatever I was wearing for the day.
All the pearls are from Kojima Company except some in the bottom left necklace, bought at a Chicago jewellery show by a friend.
Large photo: Big CFW baroque flameballs; marinière. First pearls I bought from Kojima 12 years ago and I was a goner.
Clockwise from top right:
2. Fancy-coloured baroque Tahitians; cotton v-neck
3. Purple, copper and mauve CFW keshi rope; linen v-neck
4. Vintage CFW with akoya vintage clasp; light cotton turtleneck
5. Baroque South Seas and a chain; denim shirt
6. Mixed-pearl rope: 21-year-old CFW 10mm rounds restyled by Kojima with additional 3mm akoyas and several bronze 10mm CFWs, and a pendant with a gold amulet and bronze CFW; linen/cotton cabled sweater
Oh, shoes. I'm wearing either black brogues, navy sandals (Naot "Kayla") or black patent loafers. I'd wear pearls with a plain tennis shoe, but not chunky-funky streetwear sneakers. That's just me, you might pull it off brilliantly.
Wear your pearls with your everyday clothes, except for messy, sweaty activity or when you might expose them to chemicals. Whether that's a freshwater rope found in a thrift for $25 (I keep mentioning that, but it was such fun to help the woman considering these) or Grande Dame gumballs, they will light your face like nothing else.
So there you go. Lynn. Now if you want to lend me that jade...
"I'm trying to wear my jewelry more instead of saving it for "good" but not sure how to pair jeans with pearls or antique jade. Suggestions are welcome!"
She doesn't say what pearls she owns; the more casual varieties (baroques, keshis, a pearl 'chain', sticks, coins, mixed varieties) all work with jeans.
If she has round whites, she could wear them as is with a simple shirt, or layer. For ideas, see "Un-prissing your pearls", Part One and Part Two.
Here's six days of me in pearls and black or dark-wash blue jeans, just whatever I was wearing for the day.
All the pearls are from Kojima Company except some in the bottom left necklace, bought at a Chicago jewellery show by a friend.
Large photo: Big CFW baroque flameballs; marinière. First pearls I bought from Kojima 12 years ago and I was a goner.
Clockwise from top right:
2. Fancy-coloured baroque Tahitians; cotton v-neck
3. Purple, copper and mauve CFW keshi rope; linen v-neck
4. Vintage CFW with akoya vintage clasp; light cotton turtleneck
5. Baroque South Seas and a chain; denim shirt
6. Mixed-pearl rope: 21-year-old CFW 10mm rounds restyled by Kojima with additional 3mm akoyas and several bronze 10mm CFWs, and a pendant with a gold amulet and bronze CFW; linen/cotton cabled sweater
Oh, shoes. I'm wearing either black brogues, navy sandals (Naot "Kayla") or black patent loafers. I'd wear pearls with a plain tennis shoe, but not chunky-funky streetwear sneakers. That's just me, you might pull it off brilliantly.
Wear your pearls with your everyday clothes, except for messy, sweaty activity or when you might expose them to chemicals. Whether that's a freshwater rope found in a thrift for $25 (I keep mentioning that, but it was such fun to help the woman considering these) or Grande Dame gumballs, they will light your face like nothing else.
So there you go. Lynn. Now if you want to lend me that jade...
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I advise anyone who has jewellery she would not wear by day, and likes the materials, have it restyled so you can wear it in your usual life, or divest it.