I have something to get off my chest about appearances -

for Republican women? Remember Barbara Bush and her Republican pearl necklaces?

Living paycheck to paycheck?

Thanks.

total worth is slightly more than her three speeches. By the way, release them, Hill.

Or Bill for that matter?

He does not have an ostentatious life-style. He lives like the rest of us.

Clinton didn't make the rules. I hadn't noticed what you spotted, but would agree that the optics wouldn't seem ideal for 2016.

It caught my attention because I liked it and I have one like it. I got mine from Macy's for $25 bucks after the discount they gave me. Try again, Mr. Freshwater pearls specialist.

My mom rocked pearls too, like Hillary.

I think I bought them for her for around forty dollars.

they more than meet my standards, but there are many grades of pearls, and I'm guessing at A+. Matched pearls that size - I've never really seen before.

(PS - my pearls come out for weddings and funerals, but that's the life I lead)

We make demands on women we don't make on men.

Put him in a blue suit, a red tie, and a white shirt and he's dressed for a funeral, a wedding, or a job interview.

She has spent the past eight years (at least) aggressively raking in the dough and lives like a queen, socializing with other millionaires and billionaires. Is she out of touch with the majority of Americans? Can she understand our problems? Does she rely on paid assistants to provide her with normal-sounding talking points?

You can defend her all you want, but you can't stop people from asking legitimate questions. We, the little people, are not going to disappear for Hillary's convenience.

Let's face it, statement jewelry has something to say!

A lot of her bijouterie is good quality costume jewelry. Although she does have some very nice pieces that were mostly bought for her by Bill. I don't see anything wrong with Bill buying jewelry for his wife.

When I had money I used to my girlfriend:


Fendi bags

Dior bags

Louis Vuitton bags

for special occasions. We lost everything we had in the Great Recession and had to pawn them. A part of me died then. I took it a thousand times harder than her...I even had to sell my mom's wedding band.

I'm soooo sorry. That must have been tough, particularly pawning your mom's wedding band. Were you able to get it back at some point? I'm sure that your girlfriend cares about you more than she cared about the purses.

I hope that things are better for both of you.

Because the outfit I'm rocking cost around $25.00, and that includes my baseball cap.

Maybe she's just trying to imitate her "mother in law"?

I would suspect that Bush's pearl are real since she's been wearing them for decades, but they make great costume jewelry these days that can cost you a few. To imply that you can tell real from fake on TV and then question someone's character based on what you think you see is ridiculous. And so what if it is real, it's not like she's dripping in fancy diamonds and pearls or something.

Quite the contrary. I've seen her dozens of times on TV over the past month, and most of the time she had on the same gold chain with what looked like little charms hanging from it. I thought it did nothing for her or her outfit. My thought was "she needs to stop wearing that tired looking chain, because I can't focus on what she's saying because that chain is a distraction". I also thought about the fact that she was campaigning there probably wasn't someone there when she's getting dressed in the morning to latch or unlatch her chain which is why she's wearing the same thing. You can shower in gold chains and wear them day after day if you don't have someone handing to unhook it for you, particularly at my age.

When I saw the OP I was reminded about a comment my wife made upon seeing Clinton all pearled up. The mama Bush comparison was my doing.

Personally I'm more concerned with what comes out of her mouth than what is hanging around her neck, but again, I was just making an observation.

That's exactly my point - she is.

I found older articles on the Net describing these as real pearls.

I've seen the prices on low grade medium sized pearls, and the pricing for necklaces of high grade, large matched pearls.

Trust me, those diamonds and pearls might not make it in the Dutchess of Windsor's collection, but they're pretty fancy.

I've noticed the pearls, too.

If a person doesn't learn that fact in this lifetime, they have failed.

IMO.

on the TV screen, even you, notwithstanding your "cheap freshwater pearl" jewelry-making cred. Female politicians really can't win, can they? One minute they're being derided for being too "mannish" for wearing a no-frills, tailored outfit, and then the minute they dress it up a bit, look what happens.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2020002/Hillary-Clinton-wears-pink-pearls-Tim-Gunn-slams-mannish-style.html

The pearls are a distraction... I suspect if it wasn't for the pearls folks would be talking about that. They already discuss her ankles.

and I find them appropriate for business wear.

BTW, Bill loves to buy Hillary "pretty things", it makes him happy. For years Hillary was the breadwinner of the family. Bill made a pittance as governor. Now that he has the money to spoil his wife, he does so.

I like that the stylists haven't changed her "look" yet. I expect that will change as the campaign advances and her public profile gets raised but for now, I find it reassuring that she looks like the women in my life

She looks real

Plus she was smart enough to marry Bernie!