Would your teen DD like this necklace?

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www.johnlewis.com/dinny-hall-gem-drop-topaz-pendant-necklace/blue-silver/p6211672

She is 15 and wears simple, classic styles, both silver and gold.

I will encourage her to exchange it if she doesn't like it but I'd like to at least have a go at getting it right!

I had to buy a very young person who had lived with us a ‘commemorative’ present - I bought her a generous voucher for a very cool jewellery chain (Argento) that I knew she loved and which had a wide range, and told her to buy something she loved that reminded her of us. As young people will do, she made that voucher stretch SO far (sales) and also bought something lovely that I never would have bought for her!

Actually I’ve done that a couple of times and it seems to have gone down well always.

It's very pretty but an awfully high price for a piece of very cheap costume jewellery. Topaz is as cheap as chips

You are paying for the brand not the pendant. Is Dinny Hall fashionable with teenagers now?

Also saying OPs daughter has other pieces means nothing... when I was a teen my mam and dad (and they encouraged others too aswell) both went through this phase of buying me 'expensinve' jewellery... I have never wore any of it once.

The diamond set has sat in my mams safe for 18 years without me even having access to it because it needs to be 'protected', the solid silver stuff thick chunky chains and massive pendents my dad bought is so horrifically dated to the 00s no one would wear it and the stuff family bought where such misses for my taste (what teen wants giant dress granny pearls).

If you asked them though they all thought if was 'fantastic' and the pwefect gift for a teen though, my mam kept saying I would wear this stuff on my wedding day and it would be heirlooms etc... I did not wear it on my wedding day (I bough a pretty dainty opal set of etsy for my wedding, not chunky silver & white gold and diamands and massive pearls that family kept giving me) and have zero urge to pass it on as heirlooms.

If OPs daughter had asked for this she wouldnt be asking us so clearly this is an idea she came up with not a longing of the daughters.

@mam0918 No, she has Dinny Hall stuff which she bought herself and wears regularly, which is why I'm looking at the brand. I am actually trying to find something she will like, believe it or not 😂and as I said in my OP, I'll be encouraging her to change it if she doesn't like it.

Your anecdote about your parents wasting their money on things that you just sneered at isn't really relevant but I'm glad you got it off your chest.

I have 2 dds .
17 yo would never wear anythign like that, she wears chunky goth style

15 year old would love it, and has one very similar. She has very mixed style from fine delicate stuff like this, to chunky black velvet chokers etc.
But there is no way I would spend £160 or buy any 'real' jewellry at this age, her tatse are veyr fluid. Thus weeks favourite is unworn next week.

I like this- thank you.

Mine wouldn’t. She currently loves a necklace with her name on it as do most of her friends. They also like initial ones

DD would probably wear it although not her normal style (which is a bit more "arty")
But she would be horrified at the price and tell me not to buy it for her.

Whereas the style is nice, my teen would be anxious about the diamond -is it ethical or not? I would definitely steer clear of stones like that.

Yes, my 15 year old would wear that. Or my 17 year old.
Dinny Hall also has a suffragette necklace that is similar and raises funds for womens aid. Three small stones in the suffragette colours.

Mine wouldn’t , they both like chunky or layering necklaces.

My 15 year old does like her pandora bracelet however, as do most of her friends and in fact her friends bought it for her. (Personally it is not my taste). Not sure if something like that is an option?

My older dd would like Vivienne Westwood type necklaces. It really depends on your daughters style.

'sneered at' lol.

Getting 'gifted' diamonds (something I never had any interest in) that are taken straight back to be locked away for 'safe keeping' that I have seen once in 18 years... yeah ok, I'm just ungrateful and spoilt I guess for pointing out my parent also spent huge amounts on stuff I never asked for exactly as you are doing.

Whats brand got to do with anything? I have never once bought jewellery based on brand, most come from china and are made en mass for multiple companies (hense why you can find this exact necklace for less than 1/5th the prince under another shop).

But by all means continue, Im sure our (a bunch of internet strangers) opinion of your daughters taste which you posts admits even you dont know (or you wouldnt be asking the impossible to answer question) will be perfectly accurate and every single person saying its not a good idea (almost everyone thats posted) is just wildly wrong.

In her peer group and eyes, yes.

@mam0918 You do sound ungrateful- I'm sure it was frustrating receiving presents that you didn't like but, let's face it, "my parents bought me diamonds and pearls when I wanted opals" isn't a story Ken Loach is rushing to buy the rights to. It's also not a story which is remotely relevant to my situation, given that I've said multiple times that DD can change whatever I buy, I don't keep her stuff in a safe, the whole point of my thread is to find something she'll really like and people have given some great suggestions.

I've received a range of responses to the necklace I posted- some positive, some negative, lots querying the price which is fair enough (although of course we all have different budgets). I can say without fear of contradiction, however, that yours wins the prize for most unhinged 🏆

Thanks- I will have a look.

I cannot believe the price of it, it's hideous and I can't imagine any teen wanting to wear it.

My dd also likes Vivienne Westwood so wouldn’t like that necklace. I know you want to surprise your dd. Mine wouldn’t want that tbh.

My 17 yo wouldn't. She likes to look cool / stylish and I wouldn't know what to get her. I also wouldn't pay anything like that much, as she would likely lose it at some point. She doesn't care if it's cheap, just how it looks.

Thank you to everyone who has commented helpfully (positive or negative)- I've now bought a necklace (one of those kindly recommended) and I'm going to leave this thread now as it's become a bit odd. To anyone still cross about me buying my daughter a present, maybe go for a walk.

I could afford to spend that amount on an alternative present, just wouldn't spend that on jewellery.

Yes they actually are. I like!

No. And it doesn't look like it costs £160.