Pearl Bracelets

Here’s a confession: pearls have a marketing problem. Say the word and most people picture a stiff, old-fashioned strand sitting in a velvet box nobody opens. That reputation is almost entirely undeserved, and nowhere is it more obviously wrong than in the world of the freshwater pearl bracelet — a category that’s gone from “grandma’s … Read more

Picture the cuff of a little black dress, or a bare wrist reaching for an anniversary card. That’s the natural habitat of an akoya pearl bracelet — the jewelry equivalent of a crisp white shirt. Unshowy at a glance, genuinely hard to beat up close. So what is an akoya pearl bracelet, exactly? It’s a … Read more