{"id":19903,"date":"2013-03-27T01:30:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T05:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=19903"},"modified":"2013-07-14T17:58:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T21:58:49","slug":"boyfriend-jeans-yes-boyfriend-jewelry-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/boyfriend-jeans-yes-boyfriend-jewelry-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Boyfriend Jeans? Yes. Boyfriend Jewelry? No."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-style\/news\/lea-michele-wears-cory-necklace-in-honor-of-boyfriend-cory-monteith-2013203\" target=\"_blank\">Actress Lea Michele (<em>Glee<\/em>) was recently spotted wearing a gold nameplate necklace<\/a> reading &#8220;Cory,&#8221; in honor of her boyfriend\/co-star Cory Monteith.<\/p>\n<p>The concept doesn&#8217;t appeal to gorgeous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jckonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">JCK Magazine<\/a> writer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Steph_Schaefer\" target=\"_blank\">Stephanie Schaefer<\/a>, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jckonline.com\/blogs\/louped-in\/2013\/03\/26\/are-you-head-over-heels-your-boyfriend-jewelry\" target=\"_blank\">blogged<\/a>, &#8220;To me, this trend seems to be the equivalent of doodling hearts around your boyfriend\u2019s name in middle school\u2014cute, but also a little tacky and immature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie asked Twitter for thoughts on boyfriend name jewelry and included this highlarious response in her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jckonline.com\/blogs\/louped-in\/2013\/03\/26\/are-you-head-over-heels-your-boyfriend-jewelry\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jckonline.com\/blogs\/louped-in\/2013\/03\/26\/are-you-head-over-heels-your-boyfriend-jewelry\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19905\" alt=\"bfjewelry\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bfjewelry.jpg\" width=\"499\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bfjewelry.jpg 499w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bfjewelry-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Also included in Stephanie&#8217;s post were her suggestions for other types of word jewelry, such as the necklace of mine that best represents my reaction to the idea of the boyfriend necklace.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19906\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Letter-Necklace-%252d-Small%2C-Silver%2C-SRSLY%3F\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19906\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19906\" alt=\"SRSLY_silver_80__96088_std\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SRSLY_silver_80__96088_std.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SRSLY_silver_80__96088_std.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SRSLY_silver_80__96088_std-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SRSLY_silver_80__96088_std-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SERIOUSLY?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On the other hand, gorgeous blogger behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idazzle.com\" target=\"_blank\">iDazzle<\/a> did make an excellent point:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19908\" alt=\"bfjewelry2\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bfjewelry2.jpg\" width=\"465\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bfjewelry2.jpg 465w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bfjewelry2-300x76.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, if you break up with the bastard, you can melt a gold necklace down, sell the metal for scrap and get a few bucks to ease your heartbreak. But if you get a tattoo, you&#8217;ll wind up spending your hard-earned money to get that fool&#8217;s name lasered off your skin. It makes me think of the booze ads that say, &#8220;If you do drink, drink responsibly.&#8221; In this case, if you do have to wear your boyfriend&#8217;s name like a tween would, wear jewelry, not skin art!<\/p>\n<p>But, really, just don&#8217;t do that shit.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED JULY 14, 2013, TO ADD: Sadly, Cory Monteith was found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/glee-star-cory-monteith-dies-584965\" target=\"_blank\">dead yesterday<\/a>. He was 31. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Lea Michele (Glee) was recently spotted wearing a gold nameplate necklace reading &#8220;Cory,&#8221; in honor of her boyfriend\/co-star Cory Monteith. The concept doesn&#8217;t appeal to gorgeous JCK Magazine writer Stephanie Schaefer, who blogged, &#8220;To me, this trend seems to be the equivalent of doodling hearts around your boyfriend\u2019s name in middle school\u2014cute, but also&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/boyfriend-jeans-yes-boyfriend-jewelry-no\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10,23,13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blogs-and-bloggers","8":"category-celebrities","9":"category-fashion-trends","10":"category-necklaces","11":"category-press","12":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19903"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19915,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19903\/revisions\/19915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}