Spring Trend: Pearls (Do You Wear Them?)

I’ve been wearing pearls since the fifth grade, glad they’re making a comeback!

Pearls are awesome and I have been wearing a pearl necklace 16″ or 18″ for years. SO happy to see this post!

I love pearls – my parents gave me pearl earrings many years ago, and I wear them most days. My husband’s first gift to me, more than 20 years ago, was a pearl necklace. It is still my favorite piece of jewelry; makes every T-shirt look classier. I have a very long neck, thus, I love short-ish necklaces. Thank you for showing diversity in your models. Annachiara, you are beautiful!

We did this in the late 1970s, early 80s. So this is just another cycle. Glad it’s back. (Tho some of us never stopped. I’m not talking about grandma style.)

My father was an airline pilot. Every year before he retired he would bring me pearls home from Shanghai for my birthday. He continued to ask me, are you sure you still want pearls? I thought it was so special because he picked out every pearl before they strung them. He brought back all different lengths and colors and size strands and now I have a beautiful collection of white and black and pink pearls. Most of mine are the double and triple loop strands. I think pearls are timeless. You can wear them with jeans and a white ribbed t-shirt or a business suit or cocktail dress. I know the collection is one I’ll be passing on to my daughter!

Love pearls, then and now. Used to wear vintage strands with t-shirts and jeans in my 20’s (I’m 53) and now wear less classic, lumpy freshwater pearls with everything, layering different necklaces. I wear simple clothing, so pearls kind pump up the polish.

I love pearls, but never think I can pull them off. This is a great way to start!
I’m also thinking of wearing some pretty pearl earrings for my wedding but don’t know which kind. I’d love to see a roundup of pearl earrings!

I don‘t wear classic white pearls – I think they make me look super old-fashioned -, but I have a set of tiny studs with blue-greenish pearls (I forgot what these pearls are called, but they have a specific name) in a Roségold setting, and they are super versatile and I wear them on 7 days out of 10, I guess. I like white pearls if they‘re done in an unusual way, but I‘m not really partial to the classic pearl necklace. It‘s just too classic for me, it looks a bit boring in my eyes. However, I guess those women who have this magic power of turning even the most conservative items into something unexpected and edgy can even turn the strand of pearls into something cool! But alas, I am not one of these women, so I stay away;-).

Google Norwegian rap-duo Karpe to find pictures of someone who somehow makes pearls look hella rugged… ?

Love this post! Would you be able to tell me what brand those dark jeans with the front pockets are?

My dad gave me a pearl necklace for my 16th birthday despite the fact that I REALLY didn’t want them. But now I’m so glad I have them! Although I didn’t like them as a teen and wished I had a more sparkly birthstone, I wear pearls often now – particularly my Tahitian black pearl studs and solitaire necklace from my husband – one big black pearl strung on a white gold chain. And I love that pearls become more luminous the more often they are worn against your skin – the oils improve their lustre. I recall reading a memoir in which the author’s aunt was used as a pearl “feeder” to keep the pearls in her husband’s jewelry store shiny – she would alternate wearing them around town! As other readers have mentioned, here in the south pearls have never gone out of style.

I inherited a set of pearls from my grandmother. For all I know, they are fake, as I have never gotten them appraised, but they’ve been in my jewelry box since she passed away more than a decade ago, and I love them. While figuring out my wedding jewelry last year, I looked for months at purchasing a lot of different necklaces to go with my dress before it clicked – the pearls were perfect! And I love looking at all my wedding pictures and seeing me wearing them, because it honestly feels like my grandma is right there with me <3

How inspiring. I have a lovely strand of pearls that live in their original box, buried deep in the fire safe, too special to risk seeing the light of day. Ha! I’m no longer waiting to feel “old enough” to wear them (An age I previously pegged to be somewhere around 75. In this imagined future I wear a lot of cashmere twinsets.).

I love pearls. I have a few stud earrings and some lariat style necklaces with gray pearls.

I love pearls and wear many styles of earrings but not the traditional solo pearl stud. I have short hair and feel like I would look like a throwback to my 80’s high school and college days. Ditto for necklaces, I wore so many traditional strings in that era that I wear more stylized pearls now. My all time favorite was my opera length strand that I would swing around my neck like a hula hoop. Ahhh, those were good days.

As an aside, this beautiful, earthy model made this article even fresher and welcome! It’s lovely to see not “perfect” tummies and brown skin, like mine.

I was hesitating about whether to wear my pearls when a friend told me that wearing them against skin–a low-cut dress–is dressy but wearing them against fabric–a sweater, a blouse–is casual.

I love pearls! I wear them often. I usually wear my pearls with more casual outfits and love to pair them with with simple t-shirts

I have loved pearls for as long as I can remember. I’ve been very lucky to have been gifted several over the years: a simple strand from my grandparents when I turned 13; a nearly identical set with stud earrings from my parents when I turned 16; my brother brought me back a shorter style with larger pearls that he hand-picked in China; an artisanal bracelet and purple pearl drop earrings from my first love; a vintage pair of light pink pearl chandelier earrings from my current partner – I love them all!

My mother recently passed away in an unexpected accident and as the only daughter I have inherited her jewelry collection. She, too, was a pearl lover and received many throughout the years for thoughtful reasons and milestones. These ones are by far the most special now and I hope I have a daughter one day to share these memories with her, with an added touch of glamour.

I think pearls are lovely, especially black pearls…on other people. Not for me. My mom once asked me about my distaste for them, and I told her “remember that line from The House of Bernarda Alba, that pearls mean tears?”. Plus, they seem too stuffy and formal for me.