A jewelry wardrobe isn’t prescriptive, but descriptive. The best jewelry wardrobe—the right jewelry wardrobe—is one of your own making: The more broadened you are, the more every piece of jewelry you seek will bear the signature of who you are. Like fine jewelry, your choices are stamped with your hallmark.
Start by doing your homework. New York is an expensive town, but it’s also where you can get a superb jewelry education for pennies, maybe just the cost of a subway ride. Go preview a jewelry auction; visit a jewelry dealer’s salon or boutiques run by the newest independent jewelers; walk into Cartier or Van Cleef & Arpels or Bulgari and say you’re just looking; mosey around the vitrines in the jewelry department at Bergdorf Goodman. Try on the jewelry, hold it in your hand. You, too, can be Holly Golightly and have breakfast at Tiffany’s.
