First Time Pearl Buyer, Please can you help

[pattye]

Hi Elisa,

You are stunning in those! What a perfect size and length, so versatile! Thanks for all the photos! Your Mum's pearls are very lovely also.

Pattye
so many pearls, so little time

 

[GemGeek]

You look stunning in the pearls. It's easier to part with the money when you know you can get two styles in one and they will last a lifetime. Thanks so much for all the beautiful photos!

 

[Heidi]

Gorgeous! You did a great job with the photos - thank you for sharing with us.

 

[john675]

Great strands! That City strand looks wonderful on you - congratulations!

 

[richipat]

Congrats -- great photos!!!

 

[Sueki]

Here's mine, arrived this morning.
Two City strands, ivory over-tones, custom made to 36" and 38" long so's I can wear them together (I do love multi strands with clips, brooches etc. as shorteners)

 

[robinmce]

Wow. I love that length. Look wonderful on both of you.
My resistance is melting.. help, help
Just have to hit the the checkout button

 

[elisa]

Give in to the dark side! Click the button!

Sueki--I am jealous. You have two!

This board is such a pick-me-up, everyone always has such nice things to say.

 

[Heidi]

I am still circling that button myself...

elisa - I am curous: Do you use a strand shortener when you wear your city strand doubled?

 

[elisa]

i'm not using a shortener in the first photo, but in the third I have the necklace pulled a bit tighter with the help of a bobby pin...so do i use a shortener? the answer is "sometimes, kind of"

 

[Nerida]

Sueki - I am just so so impressed by your city strands - don't they look fantastic!! And why have one when you can have two?? Truly they look beautiful on you - I was wondering if yours had arrived yet! Thanks for the pics!

 

[pattye]

Hi Sueki,

LOVE the two strands together! I am jealous, so jealous, just fab on you.

Pattye
so many pearls, so little time

 

[Sueki]

Elisa,
I am chuckling at your comment - you are jealous of me for my two strands; I am jealous of you for your figure.
You look absolutely stunning in that photo. and I'd happily trade both my City strands ( and a couple of Cortez strands, too ) if I could look as good as that.

And thank you Nerida, Pattye and Robin for your comments.
Elisa is so right - everyone is great on this forum and it is truly a real pick-me-up.

 

[john675]

I love seeing all this interest in the opera length pearls. They look great on you as well, Sueki. I think they are very elegant on a woman.

 

[katie]

GASP !!!!!!!

Lost my breath, you both look gorgeous !

Wow that City Strand is heaven ...

Girls thank you so much for posting photos.

 

[GemGeek]

Sueki -- that was genius to get them strung in different lengths so you could wear them together. Double elegance! I think your neck looks lovely. (At least you have one -- mine seems to be disappearing!)

What a great treat to come home to so many great pearl photos in one night. I can't own them all, but my friends share them with me...

 

[gravityalwayswins]

Elisa,

The clasp on your vintage akoyas is so lovely!!! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Kaywal]

Wow! Beautiful city strands ladies!

Elisa--it's perfectly lovely on you.

Sueki--I love the double strand. Looks so beautiful on you! Perfect choice!

 

[Drucilla]

Another Newbie Question

Another Newbie Question

I love the city strand, especially the double. Gorgeous together. However that's out of my price range right now. I'm considering the 18" Freshadama vs. the 18" Presidential Pearls. I know it's 2 different co's, but do they buy from the same place? Are the pearls about the same quality?

 

[Drucilla]

Thanks, Jerin

They both seem to be the "next step up" from the regular freshwaters. ?