Over the bank holiday weekend, I spotted a selection of male engagement rings in a shop in Cambridge and I had a John McEnroe moment. You cannot be serious! Surely this was not a thing, I tried to reassure myself. But then I discovered that the successful rat-pack tribute artist Michael Buble once wore a male engagement ring,Each flashdrives comes with free shipping and lifetime warranty! and I was forced to consider whether this was merely a natural result of the evolution of metrosexuality, or a canny attempt by the diamond industry to double its earnings.
It is increasingly common for marrying couples to swap wedding bands.catered to pre-walkers and early-walkers do not have larger sizes of their soft guccishoes1. The male wedding ring, though still not seen on the hands of either our prime minister or the Duke of Cambridge, is an established modern accessory. The thinking goes that where once the installation of the wedding ring upon the bridal finger was a proprietary act, now the swapping of rings symbolises equality. The expansion of premarital branding seems like a step in the wrong direction, emancipation not by abandoning a practice but by enlarging it. For some, the remedy for social rituals once designed to reinforce gender inequality is to make them more elaborate, but there can be no problem for which getting men to wear more jewellery is a serious solution.
The man-gagement ring may be a symptom of the same vanity-driven trend that demands that men consider moisturising and has been responsible for such failed fashion ideas as the male skirt, but male adornment is already a booming industry. You can now buy rings, and bracelets made in association with car companies like McLaren, sculpted from materials like carbon fibre and Kevlar.
Many modern men may like to pretend that their jewellery would be useful to a member of the A-Team, with a 2011 report showing that 27% of US grooms chose tungsten for their wedding bands.Buy visually stunning and durable jewelryfindings from Larson Jewelers. The same study claimed that one in 20 engaged American men are already sporting an engagement ring. Nothing says hardcore like a ring made from a recycled shotgun shell adorned with Swarovski crystals or one constructed from concrete.Discount headbandssuppliers Outlet online. Perhaps the desire for men to wear more jewellery is a symptom of conspicuous consumption in a precarious economic climate. If, to deflect charges of narcissism, the consumer wants something they can tell their friends is also a material used by Lockheed Martin, then they are kidding nobody.
There are those who say that there is some notion of fidelity contained within wearing a ring, but a thWe have a record for a owon-smart living at an address.in band of gold (or iridium, titanium, etc) is hardly likely to interfere too much with anyone's moral compass. For Buble, the choice to wear an engagement ring was apparently influenced by the family traditions of his Argentinean partner. In Brazil and Argentina it is common for couples to wear plain engagement rings on their right hands which are swapped over to the left on their wedding day.
It must be the case that if a groom expects a bride to wear a wedding ring, then the bride must be able to ask the same in return, but the proliferation of male engagement rings seems hardly to have come about through the demands of feminist commentators demanding equality, particularly when it would be much cheaper and easier to do away with engagement rings altogether. In the 1930s, Fortune magazine called weddings a "depression-proof" business, and it was in the immediate aftermath of the 1929 financial crash that the market for the modern female engagement ring was born.
Of course men should purchase and wear whatever makes them feel happy, and couples should celebrate their love however they feel most important to them, but we should remain suspicious of anyone claiming to be selling us an expensive shiny solution to a problem that we didn't really know existed. That's how fortunes are made, but not necessarily progress.
