Nameplate Necklace
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PRODUCT
A
thin
gold
necklace
with
a
gaudy
monogrammed
nameplate
HOW IT STARTED Popular with teenage girls in the 1980s; Carrie of Sex and the City has helped revive the look JUDGMENT CALL A humorous nod to your high school days. Back then it was a sign of pubescent narcissism; now (for a few months, anyway) it's retrochic |
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Sex and the City stylist Patricia Field, who first put the necklace on Carrie, says she was inspired by customers in her downtown Manhattan clothing shop. "A large group of them are girls from the boroughs of New York City," says Field, "and it's a mainstay with them."
The necklaces were
popular among high school girls 20 years
ago, and then were embraced by late
1980s rap culture, along with
diamond-studded rings, as a display of
wealth. Because they are made to order,
the necklaces are typically sold online
(at sites like Girlshop.com and
Personalizedboutique.com or in
boutiques like Field's. The nameplates
can be affixed to chains or hoop
earrings as well as necklaces. And
although they can cost anywhere from $85
to $500, compared with Carrie's latest
obsession--a gold lightning-bolt
necklace that sells for up to
$1,500--they're a relative steal.