Chapter 20 We Are Not Against Diamonds

I am sure that there is not a single woman in the world who is completely indifferent to jewelry and jewelry items. This is a woman's instinct. It's in the blood. Rings, bracelets, necklaces, tiaras, brooches, earrings - oh, how tempting! And it is impossible to resist the temptation! And why, exactly?! A woman herself exists to decorate this world! And men give us gold in order to make us even more beautiful, shiny and expensive. And we women are not “against”! We are deeply in favor! And if you show me a female person who says: “I don’t like it, I don’t want it, I don’t care and I don’t like it on principle.” - I am ready to consider her as my patient who has strange deviations from the norm.

But people can never live anywhere without rules. Since there are varieties of jewelry, rules were immediately made up for them. And I have no doubt that you, of course, know them. I just want to remind and emphasize something. Otherwise, no matter how delicate you are, incidents still occur. And what kind!...

The most important thing: never wear cheap crafts, skillfully made of plastic, “painted” gold, and fake stones. But if you still resolutely put on fake nonsense, then please answer, what do you want to demonstrate by this? Cheap jewelry is always in bad taste. If you don’t have money for a real, beautiful product, then it’s better not to wear anything. I don’t argue that it will be ascetic. But it’s more noble than the look in a rhinestone necklace on a wire chain and a plastic ring covered in gold with a diamond-like stone. You will lose your dignity and devalue yourself with such trinkets. You are a beautiful, proud woman - how can you decorate yourself with a stupid imitation? Or are you not beautiful?! Or maybe not proud? No, in no case - this is not true! I'm sure.

But the opposite extreme - wearing jewelry only because it is made of pure gold - is also no better. Your jewelry should perform only one function - it should decorate you, emphasize your appearance and your imagination. Therefore, when putting on earrings, you should think “why?” What do you want to emphasize about yourself today by wearing these earrings? And I’ll tell you that small earrings usually hint at our inner restraint and modesty. Small, but very expensive earrings, unobtrusively emphasize our belonging to a wealthy circle of society. They emphasize our well-being.

But any large earrings (no matter what their cost) demonstrate independence of spirit and, oddly enough (this is a psychological fact), associatively demonstrate our sexual experience and perhaps even some swagger. It’s just that depending on whether they are expensive or not, when we wear them, we also designate the social group to which we belong.

Any ring, any medallion, any bracelet should not be worn just because it is simply made of precious metal... Your jewelry should highlight the best in you, jewelry should complement your appearance, your femininity, your impeccable harmony with them. You cannot be allowed to be perceived separately, and your earrings or necklace to attract attention separately. “Not suitable” - they say in such cases. Too large rings, too large pendants, too large watches (after all, watches for women can very often serve as decoration) - all cases are “too” not for the jewelry box of a True woman.

During the classes of the “Order of True Women”, we reasoned like this: we all love jewelry - let’s choose something that is significant for us, i.e. something that has some other meaningful root cause, besides the fact that it adorns us only with its value. And then, when we began to consciously invent, almost