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Understated Elegance

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

What does it mean to you?

To me, it means someone who appreciate quality when he/she sees it, not into displaying labels yet appreciate a good design when he/she sees it.

Often they would have items made to their exact requirements rather than to buy off the peg.

They wear labels, however, they do not let the labels wear them.

They smell divine only when up close and personal.

Jewellery are small and discreet, made of the finest materials, not brash or showy like Elton John or Liberace.

Always well groomed and polished.

Tom Ford and David Furnish springs to mind, and they are lush.

Someone else springs to mind too, however, I can't name him or he may slap me!

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

I believe, elegance and class, are something you grow to be. For me its the way someone carries themselves, behaves in public ect. I dont think it is necessarily to do with clothers all though its obvious by the cut of shirt or suit. But two people coud be wearing the same outfits yet one would look elegant and one wouldnt, it is aslo down to subtleness as well

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I know what you mean, just need to look at the sharp-suited footballers - a lot of them look awkward in suits and do not know how to carry themselves!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Just look at Elton John, with all that money and stylists, he let the clothes and accessories wear him and not the other way round.

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

labels always on the inside.

1 or 2 pieces of great jewellery rather than 100 of pieces of not so good.

classics.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I kept drooling at your rings over dinner, did you notice?

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By *ue care and attentionWoman
over a year ago

birmingham

Bugger, I better take my Primani leggins and bangles back then!

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By *ue care and attentionWoman
over a year ago

birmingham


"I kept drooling at your rings over dinner, did you notice? "

Damn! better put my glasses on before I mis read anything else!

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

I don't believe the price of clothes really matters. More the way they are worn

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I kept drooling at your rings over dinner, did you notice?

Damn! better put my glasses on before I mis read anything else! "

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Naughty girl!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

To me elegance comes from within, strip a person naked and if they have it it will still shine through.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i look good in anything

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By (user no longer on site)
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over a year ago


"To me elegance comes from within, strip a person naked and if they have it it will still shine through. "

I agree with this and i also think it has nothing to do with cost its how you wear whatever it is you choose to wear, some people just have it and others can try as hard as they like but never carry it off regardless

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"To me elegance comes from within, strip a person naked and if they have it it will still shine through. "

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Need an apple in the mouth though!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Elegance and class are nothing to do with clothes or money.

Look at the difference between Princess Diana and Sarah Ferguson. Both high members of the Royal Family, both with wealth and privileges of private schooling. One a lady in the true sense of the word, the other a chav.

In celebrity land a lady who exudes elegance, charm and sophistication for me is Dita Von Teese. Burlesque stripper no less, a woman who takes her clothes off in public, but is pure class. Again offset against Katie Price or Kerry Katona, there is no comparison.

I do not believe people who are colourful dressers are necessarily not classy. I see that as flamboyance and unique. Elton John, who has been quoted here, is a very colourful flamboyant character, I wouldn't say he wasn't classy. He doesn't seem to be falling out of nightclubs every week d*unk, that to me is trashy and common.

Vivienne Westwood is a classy lady, a pioneer of fashion, very flamboyant in style, it works.

To me your behaviour separates you from being classy, not necessary your clothes or style. If you are common, act in a rough and ready manner, swearing all the time, drinking, shouting out brash comments, being vulgar, is what makes you trashy rather than classy.

I do agree with the OP about labels and appreciating good quality. I would rather have one piece of good jewellery than 20 pieces of tack. A woman said to me last night that she liked my silver key pendant and asked where I bought it from. I explained it was a Tiffany key and chain. She asked the price and I told her. She said no way would I pay that for silver when you can get a nice solid gold chain from Samuels much cheaper. But like everything in life, do what you like, behave how you like, but don't try and be like someone else or copy because you can't really cover what deep down you really are. Be proud of the person you are

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I would not buy from Tiffany, or Miki, or any other branded jewellery for the sake of the brand.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I would not buy from Tiffany, or Miki, or any other branded jewellery for the sake of the brand. "

yeh but if you liked it and it happened to be a brand you would

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I would not buy from Tiffany, or Miki, or any other branded jewellery for the sake of the brand.

yeh but if you liked it and it happened to be a brand you would "

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No, I am more likely to commission something similar to be made for a lot less.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I would not buy from Tiffany, or Miki, or any other branded jewellery for the sake of the brand.

yeh but if you liked it and it happened to be a brand you would

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No, I am more likely to commission something similar to be made for a lot less. "

wouldnt be the same tho

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I would not buy from Tiffany, or Miki, or any other branded jewellery for the sake of the brand.

yeh but if you liked it and it happened to be a brand you would

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No, I am more likely to commission something similar to be made for a lot less.

wouldnt be the same tho "

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It will be to my specification and design, therefore, unique to me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

well me personally if i see something i like ill buy it regardless of brand name

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I personally wouldn't as its not just down to materials. The design and workmanship of the designers in Tiffany is obviously goping to be a lot better than some cheap back street jeweller.

I love my Tiffany necklace and my ring. My ideal would be to get prestigious jewellery designers to commission a piece for me but sadly I don't have those kind of funds.

I am not a jewellery designer therefore I do not know the intricacies involved. I would not go to a cheap jeweller to create a piece for me and believe that it is of the same standard as Tiffany and Cartier. Sorry but it is not the same and the quality would be rubbish

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I believe a lot of goldsmiths who spent years perfecting their crafts would disagree!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have a commissioned piece from a jeweler. It is white gold and star sapphires. I have no brand name or any makers mark. Yet again, the elegance of the piece speaks for itself. Its not shoddy or tacky the jeweller wouldn't sell anything if it was.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

The thread is about understated elegance and I take that to mean not the elaborately showy. I also think of Vivienne Westwood as elegant but never understated. Equally Deeta Von Tease exudes elegance but it hardly feels understated.

Audrey Hepburn and Katherine Hepburn both spring to mind for understated elegance. Very different women but a real sense of inner confidence that allows them to wear a t-shirt and headscarf and still look elegant. Yes, the choice of headscarf and t-shirt play their part but without that confidence they are but clothes.

I wear too many rings - not particularly elegant but I am usually well enough put together and I wear what feels comfortable. Two rings were designed and made for me - they both garner comments and many people have asked where to get them. The craftsmanship on them is not perfect,the silver is good, but they are unique, reflective of me and both were made with love as gifts for me. That wins out over a brand name every time as far as I am concerned.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Joanna Lumley epitomises it for me. Unless she's playing Patsy!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"What does it mean to you?

To me, it means someone who appreciate quality when he/she sees it, not into displaying labels yet appreciate a good design when he/she sees it.

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Agree,understated elegance to me simply is quality without being ostentatious,i love to wear Nino Cerruti 1881 both clothes and perfume pour homme

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If they can walk in flipflops without waddling then that is elegance!

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"If they can walk in flipflops without waddling then that is elegance! "

That's so true!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"If they can walk in flipflops without waddling then that is elegance! "

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Crocs or mock Crocs for me!

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By *omnlynneCouple
over a year ago

milton keynes

elegance has nothing to do with the clothes but how you wear them....as the saying goes ..."cant make a silk pure from a sows ear"

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