Business Men Find Beads and Bangles Totally Charming
Men, you might just want to brace yourselves. Or as the Financial Times has it, you probably already have. Yes lads, according to that bastion of all things buttoned up and Tag wearing, the latest accessories trend to hit the mannery market: Bracelets–in all their beaded, bangled and charmed glory. “Not to be confused with the charity wristband fad started by Lance Armstrong’s Livestrong campaign in 2004,” the paper reports–pointing to a surge in popularity among well-togged hommes, “these accessories are instead an update of the backpacker souvenirs and friendship bracelets of adolescence.”
And by update, they mean a more expensive version designed to represent an man’s inner irreverence as tokens of the life that happens outside of one’s Gucci suit and tie. “I used to be a sailor, and each year my mother would give me a red bracelet for luck. Then, when I travelled, people would give them to me as presents, and I’ve never taken them off,” explained Luca Rubinacci, of his oft-snapped wrist full of wistfuls.
But if fit for a neo-gypsy, the accoutrements heard jingle-jangling around the boardroom aren’t the stuff you once exchanged under the jungle gym at recess. Tod’s, for example, is selling a two-tone plaited bracelets in a variety of shades for £95 (around $137 US); Hermés has a metal link bracelet fastened by lengths of leather; and Bottega Veneta offers leather-weave styles with sterling silver fastenings for £620 (around $900 US). Of course, the last time we checked, all matters of man jewelry were up there with their female compatriot, the head-string — meaning found to be completely unnecessary and generally in bad taste, but for a certain sort, nevertheless. As the Time’s qualifies, “It helps if you’re Italian.”
[via Financial Times]
[via The Sartorialist]
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