Stereotype of yellow gold wearing woman vs white gold / platinum

[Anonymous]

What seems to be the current trend? Rose gold seems over

[Anonymous]

This is not a thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes there definitely are stereotypes.

Yellow gold is perceived as cheap and flashy. Don't always agree with it, but that is a known stereotype.

I think because it’s more commonly worn (historically) by black and Latina women - as it looks better on these skin tones generally.

I’m Latina and switched from wearing predominately silver to gold jewelry a few years ago. I think gold became trendy last year. I did however ask for a platinum wedding set when my DH was getting ready to propose (earlier this year) - I just think it looks more striking.

[Anonymous]

I was married in 2000 and my engagement ring and wedding band are 18k yellow gold. Friends who married after me all chose platinum or white gold. Now I’m starting to see yellow gold again. Wear what you like. Trends come and go.

[Anonymous]

I wear only yellow gold jewelry. Silver/white gold feels like teenager jewelry.

[Anonymous]

I wear yellow gold because it looks better with my skin tone. Presumably, any quality pieces I buy are going to outlast whatever trends come and go, so I’ll stick with what works best.

[Anonymous]

This is a weird question, to be honest.

I wear yellow, white, and rose gold. I typically mix them.

What is the issue, again?

[Anonymous]

I actually wear both. My engagement ring, wedding band and ten year anniversary band are all white hold and diamonds. I wear a yelling gold bracelet that is 18k. I see people mixing metals all the time..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is weird.

Most people wear yellow gold if they look better in warmer colors and white gold / silver if they look better in cooler colors.

Correct. I am a silver sort of jewelry-wearer, and have many sterling silver items as well as platinum items. Platinum is a lot more expensive! They're the setting for my Mikimoto pearls, as well as my engagement and wedding rings. No white gold, for some reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m unaware of any stereotype about this.

Not a stereotype but - growing up in Vancouver there were many recent East Asian immigrants who wore a lot of very yellow gold that l was told was close to 24k. Like they were wearing their wealth. I’ve heard pure gold is very soft it’s better to use up to 18k for making jewelry.

Personally l prefer yellow gold because as others have said, it looks nice with my skin tone.

Are you some some sort of expert? 22k gold is that norm in India and other places.

Also "wearing their wealth" sounds gross and sort of racist, PP. How is wearing a lot of gold jewelry different than a big engagement ring on a white woman?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't like my yellow gold rings from the 80s. At the time, I thought I liked them better. What was I thinking?

Platinum was so big when I got engaged in 1996. I used to wear a lot if silver and white gold with my platinum engagement/wedding bands.

Gold is really in now. I have a lot of gold pieces and I really didn’t like it back in the 90s/early 2000s.

My mom has a wonderful thick/wide gold wedding band. It’s wonderful.

All classes do both if that’s what you are getting at, OP.

There is a guido connotation about men and gold chains and women with huge gold earrings.

OP here - this is kind of what I was getting at. Platinum seemed so dominant with folks in the 90s and 2000s whereas yellow gold seems more vintage

Yes but this is a trend/fashion thing, not at all about old or new money.

[Anonymous]

My wedding and engagement rings from 13 years ago are white gold (couldn't afford platinum at the time). I wear a lot of Madewell gold jewelry and have only recently realized maybe these clash? I think I don't care and just wear whatever I feel like. I mix silver and gold jewelry on the reg.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kind of like how one PP mentioned that a decade ago her small ruby and yellow gold ring wasn’t necessarily cool, I think there is a stereotype of gen X women with platinum engagement rings with large diamonds who were traditionally “cool” or trendy a decade ago. It looks dated now.

Thick and stacked are back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was married in 2000 and my engagement ring and wedding band are 18k yellow gold. Friends who married after me all chose platinum or white gold. Now I’m starting to see yellow gold again. Wear what you like. Trends come and go.

Same, but 2004.

[Anonymous]

I wear yellow gold. I look equally bad in yellow gold and in silver tones. Grew up in the 80s and 90s, married in 2009. Almost no one I know wears yellow gold except my Indian friends at their weddings and my East Asian relatives.

I think that because I was a little girl in the early 80s, yellow gold will always have a familiar preppy and/or 80s glam vibe that feels aspirational and comfortable to me. I also had a small amount of hand-me-down gold stuff when I first started working, so I wore that for lack of money to buy anything else.

White gold and platinum remind me of cheap 1990s silver jewelry and the matching platinum engagement rings that literally every one of my friends got from 2001-2012.