Gilded Age Fad of Young Men

There is a whole science to selecting rings for different fingers according to many online sources – Image source, Pinterest

A Young Man's Rings

Have you noticed the hands of the young man who is only swagger, not quite well-bred? He wears rings and rings – not one, or two, or even three, but six and seven, and he wears them just as his women friends do, clear up to the knuckle of the third and fourth fingers of both hands. 

Some of them are of gold and some of silver or platinum, and occasionally one sees a thin, dark band that means iron, and they are set with all kinds of stones, sometimes a diamond, sometimes a turquoise, perhaps an emerald, or a ruby, or a sapphire. 

And the young man who wears all these finger adornments always rides in the elevated cars without his gloves, and the young lady clerk sits opposite him and counts, and wonders and admires.-N. Y. Evening Sun, 1890

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