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Jewellery part 2
Sep. 4th, 2013 04:24 pmI'm sure that somebody on my Friends list posted about this a few years ago, but I can't remember who, so can't track it down to check responses.
When I was little, in my experience, men didn't wear wedding rings. My Dad didn't (and still doesn't.) My uncles didn't. I went to quite a lot of weddings, since I sang in the church choir, and while it's entirely possible that some grooms got rings, I certainly never noticed it happening. (However, we used to hide books in the voluminous sleeves of our robes, and read during the boring bits, safely hidden by the rood screen, so I might have missed it happening.)
Shortly after I got married, I became aware that in fact most married men did indeed wear wearing rings. Male colleagues who had been married for many years were wearing them, so it wasn't a new thing. I've spoken to people about it, and they all express utter amazement - disapproval, really - that any married man might not have a wedding ring, unless he's deliberately hiding his married state.
I am not debating the rights and wrongs of the issue, merely wondering about people's experience. Is this something that has changed over the last few decades, or did I grow up in a strange pocket of ringless men, already out of sync with the rest of the world?
When I was little, in my experience, men didn't wear wedding rings. My Dad didn't (and still doesn't.) My uncles didn't. I went to quite a lot of weddings, since I sang in the church choir, and while it's entirely possible that some grooms got rings, I certainly never noticed it happening. (However, we used to hide books in the voluminous sleeves of our robes, and read during the boring bits, safely hidden by the rood screen, so I might have missed it happening.)
Shortly after I got married, I became aware that in fact most married men did indeed wear wearing rings. Male colleagues who had been married for many years were wearing them, so it wasn't a new thing. I've spoken to people about it, and they all express utter amazement - disapproval, really - that any married man might not have a wedding ring, unless he's deliberately hiding his married state.
I am not debating the rights and wrongs of the issue, merely wondering about people's experience. Is this something that has changed over the last few decades, or did I grow up in a strange pocket of ringless men, already out of sync with the rest of the world?
