I am not much for politics but this US presidential election has got me on the edge of my seat. It’s been all about pearls. Who is wearing the biggest? Who is wearing the best? Do they mean power, class and elegance, or is it just about sex?Pearls are clearly bi-partisan this year. Hillary wears them, Michelle Obama, Cindy McCain, even Sarah Palin sported a maverick style of golden South Sea pearls during her speech.
After Cindy did her talking, a lot was published about her outfit. The *experts* all seem to think her outfit was valued around $300,000. The earrings alone are supposedly worth $280,000. Definitely a woman of the people; she does not look high-maintenance at all! But what about that pearl necklace valuation? I have seen $11,000, $15,000 and $25,000. Were we watching the same damn speech?
Cindy wore a 4-row necklace of what appeared to be large akoya pearls. They weren’t your grandma’s pearls. There was no graduation up the nape. Those were large pearls, at least 9 mm. So what’s the deal with all these experts and their math? Do you think she was wearing a freshwater strand of pearls or a discount strand of akoya? Not this down-home girl. She shops at Oscar de la Renta and wears Escada, Michael Kors, Carolina Herrera, Stuart Weitzman and Chanel and loves to fly on that private jet. I am going to go out on a limb here and say she likes expensive pearls as well.
So, four strands of pearls would calculate to about $2750, $3750 and $6250 per strand by those *expert* evaluations in the press. Now I’m no Oxonian math major, but that *expert* arithmetic seems a bit off. So what if the pearls a AAA Mikimoto and 8.5-9 mm? I think I am being conservative here. What does a strand like that cost? Last I checked it was around $70,000 per strand. She was wearing four of them.
If it were not for her new damn long-hair style we may have been able to see the clasp. I guess it never shows. Maybe it isn’t a diamond-studded, platinum behemoth. She is, after all, a woman of the people.
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How about a 50$ shell pearl necklace? That's what Tymoshenko's wearing and it fooled everyone until she threw it at the face of a politician who questioned her being a "woman of the people".
Tymoshenko and McCain come from different worlds. Tymoshenko wears her braids like McCain wears Chanel.
Yes! Those political ladies are wearing beautiful pearls and I don't think they are fake.
I remember Jackie Onassis faux pearl necklace that went and sold at the auction for $200,000!
But I believe these ladies are smart shoppers too and they probably bought those pearls at bargain prices. There's a lot on the internet!
True. Tymoshenko is a woman of the people.
oh but what does that make McCain?
Hm! Maybe she isn't a woman of the people!
What's the weather like in Texas? (I had to ask, there's a tahitian leather necklace involved!)
I wouldn't know. *I* haven't been there in years.
You don't need to go. Everyone on the internet can find out what's the weather like in Texas. Even I do.
I just watch the Youtube video of their speeches and the comments of the YouTubers are very funny but I notice their pearl jewelries having lacklustre. If they are indeed AAA quality then even from a few feet away the luster of the pearls should be obvious. Those are probably fake pearls or poor quality pearls.
I'm disappointed that even the Pearl Professor is too pusillanimously politically correct to point out that Michelle Obama's gargantuan South Sea Pearls aren't exactly what "a woman of the people" would wear either.
But then, it's a criminal offense to poke fun at the Obamas, isn't it?
Ludenbisto,
Me? Politically correct? Love it! I rarely get that compliment. Do you think I wouldn't, considering the pusillanimous style of writing I have?
Hell, throw a quarter-million dollar suit on Michelle, strap some pearls on her, and let me go at it! I can't take 'em all apart in a single post!
Dear Pearl Professor,
Have you looked up pusillanimous in the dictionary? Your style of writing is hardly pusillanimous.
And Michelle Obama *does* have all of the material trappings (including the South Sea Pearls I mentioned earlier) of a politician's wife, so please try to be at least a *little* different from the main-stream media. Please *try* not to give the Obamas yet another free pass.
Luden, Luden, Luden-Bisto,
Thank you for the English/Latin lesson.
Now, if you have one of those dictionaries yourself, please look up the definition of the word sarcasm. It might help you understand my previous post!
Bring on those Obama, material trappings! Bring on those chunky pearls and Chanel. Just make certain a few inept experts undervalue her pearls so I have something to write about!
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