A man wearing a woman’s ring, thoughts?

[abradingleydon]

My dear partner has recently inherited two rings from his grandmother. Both are family pieces and are around 100 years old I’m guessing.

One is a beautiful double sapphire ring in platinum/white gold. The other is a simple “oblong” green emerald in 22kt gold.

I cannot wear rings. I asked him what he said he was going to do with them, he said he might try wearing one of them!

And?

If he wants to fair enough, I wouldn't notice to be honest and if I did it wouldn't be a big deal. Hope he finds a way to use them.

I wouldn't bat an eyelid. DD2's DP wears loads of rings (and nail varnish).

I would, however, be drooling over the rings

If they don't suit him, you could always think about getting them reworked by a jeweller into something he (or you) might enjoy wearing.

I'm surprised they would fit. If he wants to, why not?

Won’t his hands be too big?

Well they're now his rings, so they are rings that belong to a man. So they have become a man's rings.

I dont think either sex has autonomy over the accoutrements of material culture. Indeed, that dark road of gendered stereotyping is pretty recent, western, boring, capitalistic, constraining and did I say boring?

nowt wrong with that

my dad died recently and I'm wearing his watch and planning to get a ring resized. I daresay you'd call it a man's ring OP, but - I dunno, it will just be mine after being his. The watch is definitely marketed as a man's watch. who cares?

the rings sound fab, I hope he enjoys them.

It's a bit of a non event i think, I'm not sure I subscribe to their being such things as 'women's rings' and 'men's rings' so much as I think they are just rings, and any person should wear what they like.

Does it worry you in some way OP? Or are you just curious? They sound beautiful by the way, what a lovely inheritance.

My thoughts are that they sound like beautiful pieces of jewellery and I'm a bit envious.

I think that's really sweet.