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.

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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.

Maybe this hits too close to home for the DCUM demographic

Ha. I think this is right. I was born in 1985, my engagement ring is my only white gold piece, and i'm going to have it re-set in yellow gold I think. The tides shifted during my jewelry-buying years!

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.

Maybe this hits too close to home for the DCUM demographic

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.

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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

Well then you have discovered it is not a stereotype and just a normal fashion trend. Jewelry houses, like all other fashion houses, love to promote trend items to keep people buying. Not that complicated. The stereotypes just come in afterwards with the ages of people buying things because people tend to wear jewelry for longer. Or alternatively, the trendsetter who always buys the latest.

OP we all think dumb things sometimes and you just need to point out to yourself how dumb it is and move on.

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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

My sister was married in 99 and hers are yellow gold. I was married in 2007 and platinum. I definitely think it's just what's trendy. I now generally like silver/platinum, occasionally wearing yellow gold when it looks better with an outfit. At some point I'm sure they'll look dated. But I do t think that will stereotype me in any way other than "she got married in the early 2000s. "

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Anonymous wrote:

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

Hmm. Maybe. I was married in 2010, and know pretty much no one in my age group who had yellow gold. I think that is shifting. So, yeah, I guess yellow gold maybe was vintage or a family ring, but my mom also wore yellow gold generally. We are not old money.

I have always preferred yellow gold even when white gold/platinum were more in. I’ve also been a longtime fan of rise gold since well before it became trendy.

It’s funny when people refer to yellow gold as trendy now. I have stacking funds in yellow and rose gold and I’ve had numerous people comment that they are “so in” which is funny because I got them back when they were considered by many to be tacky because white gold was viewed as “classy” and yellow good as lower class.

I’m not old money but I’ve also never lived in a suburb. I very much did not want the platinum engagement ring with the princess or round brilliant diamond— they seemed generic to me because most women I knew chose something like that. My engagement ring is yellow gold with a small ruby that is a family heirloom. When I got it, I know friends and colleagues thought it was small and ugly and insufficiently sparkly. Now I get compliments on it all the time.

Jewelry trends are weird.

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.

This.

“Seasons” was a whole thing when I first bought a nice piece of jewelry. I was advised to go with yellow gold although I actually prefer the look of white gold and silver.

Well my yellow gold is certainly old money…it’s my great great grandmother’s from the 1890s…but another family member has a platinum one of hers so yes, old money all around

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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

I like yellow gold. It’s just personal preference.

I wear mostly silver tones because it looks better with my skin tone.

I have both and like a PP, wear whatever goes with my outfit. Both seem to work with my skin tone.

Also - with all due respect OP, this is one of the weirdest posts I've seen on wealth-obsessed DCUM.