Superficial question - do you still wear your class ring?

[Anonymous]

I just found my college class ring after 15 years. I still like it; it's a gold signet ring, i.e., all metal - no stones of any kind. I suppose it someone really looked they could tell it is a school ring, but it's not obvious.

Does anyone still wear these? I would like to, but don't know if that is weird.

[Anonymous]

Honestly, I never knew anyone who ordered a class ring, let alone wore it. I'm surprised people actually did this. That ranks sort of there with wearing "PINK" across your ass or something.

[Anonymous]

I have a gold signet ring too. I graduated from Syracuse University in 1993. I guess they were popular 15-20 years ago. I don't like the way it looks any more. Seems garish. And I usually wear silver now. So, long story short, no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I never knew anyone who ordered a class ring, let alone wore it. I'm surprised people actually did this. That ranks sort of there with wearing "PINK" across your ass or something.

Really? At my school in the 90s lots of people bought them.

[Anonymous]

I don't have a college class ring.

[Anonymous]

My hus band wears his semi regularly. UVA signet ring. I notice other men wearing theirs.

Mine is also a signet. I stopped wearing it about a decade ago (a decade after graduating). Many of my friends wear theirs. Sometimes I miss it, but I don't think I'd ever go back to regular wear. Prefer only my wedding/engagement ring, and sometimes a fun decorative cocktail-y type ring.

[Anonymous]

Think it depends on the school/ring tradition. USNA grads, for ex, wear theirs. Texas A&M. Around here see a lot of UVA.

Many women's college grads wear theirs - they are distinctive and a big deal. Have a friend who wears her mom's Wellesley ring, for ex(friend did not go there). In this area, have met women from Hood college, when it was a women's colleague had a distinctive pinky ring. Wonder if they still have a ring tradition as a coed school. same with the former Randolph-Macon women's college, I don't even know what it's called now but they had a classy ring.

[Anonymous]

Most women in my high school bought them, and they were very simple and elegant. I'd wear it if I could find it. And if I wore jewelry often. Ha.

[Anonymous]

I have a signet ring from law school. Haven't worn it in years, but I would. No reason not to. But I wear jewelry for me and not what others might think....which means I'm not a fashion plate at all, but I'm happy.

[Anonymous]

I think only corny people still wear them. After ten years out, that's the only excuse.

[Anonymous]

I never got one, so no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think only corny people still wear them. After ten years out, that's the only excuse.

Interesting perspective. I'm kinda corny (and by that, I mean overly sentimental) and I occasionally wear my school ring because of the memories it evokes. So you may be on to something.

[Anonymous]

I have a pretty signet one from HS that I still wear.

[Anonymous]

No. I think once you graduate, put it in a nice keepsake box and leave it there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. I think once you graduate, put it in a nice keepsake box and leave it there.

Don't you buy it when you graduate?