Shopping notes, August 2007 edition

[ellarien]

Apparently, the latest trend in costume jewelry is big rings. Really, really big, really ugly rings; lumps of wood or plastic the size of baby potatoes; stones the size of pigeon's eggs. If they don't catch on, Macey's jewelry buyer is going to be in serious trouble this winter.

Why is it so hard to find clip-on earrings that aren't tacky? I understand it's a small segment of the market, and not populated by serious earring wearers, and that there are practical constraints on the design, but it still seems to me that the designers could try a tiny bit harder. This goes double or triple when it comes to dangly styles.

This is completely the wrong time of year to be shopping for jewelry boxes. I should try again closer to the holidays.

If there's a distinction between what Macey's call a camisole and what Marks and Spencer call a vest, it isn't one that's obvious to me.

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

So the question now is, what does Marks and Spencer call the thing Macy's calls a vest? You know, the sleeveless piece that goes over a shirt, most often seen as a component of a three-piece suit?

[ellarien]

Waistcoat. Not that one sees them much now, but they were quite fashionable about ten or twelve years ago. I have a rather nice ivory brocade one somewhere in the back of the closet.

(The masculine version of the M&S vest would be undershirt, I think.)