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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like the old rich ladies have ruined this thread.

OP, I am American of South Asian ancestry. I wear far more diamonds than these ladies can even imagine. I don't understand why wealthy white ladies feel like they should hoard their jewelry instead of wearing it. So dumb!! If you own it, you should wear it, no rules!!

Happy to not be white so I don't have to follow your stupid white people rules!!!![/quote]
Interesting take - I’m UC Japanese and pretty much all of these apply back home. There are a few additional things like pretty much never showing your toes or knees. Also in certain settings you don’t wear rings because ceramics are so important in our culture and pervasive, and any metal knocking on them could hit an air pocket and damage them. If you happened to be wearing a ring and found yourself in a setting where you’re handling ceramics (which just somehow happens all the time), you would remove it first, even if it’s your wedding ring.

Big differences:
Pierced ears are trashy and uncivilized.
Dyeing your hair to cover your grays is acceptable forever.
Light daily makeup is okay.
Tighter palette of “acceptable” colors to wear, especially as you get older (boring!!)
Evoking the season is very important culturally, so there’s a smaller range of what is acceptable as “seasonless” in a wardrobe. Things like the weight of the wool crepe matter.
The decades-old, scruffy, mended wool sweater is not for going out in public, unless it’s the barn.
A 1 ct diamond engagement ring that is worn all the time is borderline tacky for being too big, but it’s totally okay to have an enormous and super expensive engagement ring that you never wear.
Pantyhose is alive and well. For the PP talking about swampiness vis-a-via hose-wearing…knee-highs are a very popular choice in JP.
For older people, denim is still an expression of rebellion a little bit!
My mother seems to think pearls are for evening or funerals but that might just be her.

A lot of the above is not class-specific. There are tons of other cultural rules like how bags and shoes for a funeral should always be cloth only and never leather, bc leather is too in-your-face “dead animal” and therefore inappropriate.

I think fewer people here are really looking at me and making any assessments about my background as the self-proclaimed WASPy PP above says (“what hospital” is also a question in Tokyo lol!). Sometimes people seem to see “Asian” first and whatever their own associations are that come along with that, which may not have a lot to do with me. So I go ahead and indulge a little bit, because it doesn’t really matter. Right now I have a bigger mixed metal ring that is part of my daily jewelry (although I’d still never wear it on my middle finger!). I have some suede flats that I wear at the wrong time so I don’t have to replace my other ones. I wear bright colors when they make me feel happy. I have a small diamond solitaire necklace that I sometimes wear during the day because it helps me feel put together. Tennis shoes are fine when running around after my toddler, regardless of what else I’m wearing.
  
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This was the most interesting post so far in this thread, especially the part about ceramics and jeans.  Interesting/funny![/quote]

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