Soooo… Here’s a question for you:
Can an unmarried woman who has no male in the offing and all of whose friends know she has no male in the offing get away with wearing a ring on her left hand, especially if it doesn’t look at all like a wedding or engagement band?
The other day while fishing around in the jewelry drawer, I came across some silver rings I haven’t worn in years. Back in the day, I really loved them and wore them all the time.
For reasons that I chose not to appreciate, as the years wore on the rings wore…less and less. Eventually I couldn’t get them on, or worse, I couldn’t get them off. So they got put away and forgotten.
When they turned up last week, I remembered how much I used to enjoy those pieces and wondered…now that I’m thin again, is there any chance the things would fit?
Well. Hallelujah, brothers and sisters: they DO fit!!!
They fit freaking perfectly!
Couldn’t believe it.
So now I’m trotting around with one or the other on my maidenly right hand. But I’d love to be able to wear two of them, the way I used to wear two rings or sets of rings back when I was a corporate wife and society matron.
D’you suppose it would be too, too outré and tacky to wear one of these babes on the left and one on the right? As you know, I do have a countercultural streak. But I’d just as soon not cause one of the church ladies to faint dead away…
I’d do it. But then, I don’t care if church ladies’ faint dead away because I wore jewelry 😉 I’ve worn my old wedding band, on a different finger, and I’m long divorced. I rarely wore it but now, I don’t think it fits on any other finger anymore.
There is no law or rule that says you have to hold your left ring finger holy for a wedding ring – or even that you have to wear a wedding ring on your left ring finger, for that matter. In Germany, the right hand is the “wedding” hand. Also in Jewish custom, the wedding ring goes on the right fore-finger.
I often wear my great grandmother’s opal ring on my left ring finger and my mother’s weddign ring on my right middle finger. Really .. who cares. Wear what you want, where you want. Wear what makes you happy.
I’d do it. Give those old ladies something to talk about.
I say do whatever you’d like. That being said, it may cause confusion if someone you’re attracted to sees you with the ring and thinks that you are unavailable.
Heck yes! Wear what you want – and the church ladies may enjoy a bit of swoon, you never know.
Life is too short and why not?!
I don’t think anyone but Emily Post gives a hang who wears what on what body part anymore – enjoy ’em!
Yes, you can wear what you want on any finger of either hand. Go for it!