I have a $200 Tiffany necklace I got over 10 years ago. The quality of this silver necklace is amazing. It still looks brand new and I don't do anything to it. Her $800 earrings are immediately family heirlooms. If I could afford the pearl eariings, I would get them in a heartbeat. They are worth the money.
Well they surely are heirlooms now. They're the earrings she wore to a Presidential debate. Only the second woman to do that and the first woman of color. They are a piece of history now.
If she becomes President it's decent odds those earrings (or a repilca) go on display in her Presidential library.
Now that they've become a thing there's a good chance of it. I would have said the jewelry she wears at her inauguration or as part of her inaugural ball would have been the bigger pick for preservation...
Which just makes me wonder if she's already mentally planning the ball. Assuming she wins (and I hope she does) who is she going to go with for her dress? I think any fashion house would fall over themselves to whip something custom up for her, but she might want to go with a US designer. Who is she going to pick? Gown or is she going to be non-traditional and wear pants? Some sort of mix? What color? Is she going to borrow jewelry and get something extra flashy, go with something she owns, or splurge and buy something new?
From what I've seen, Harris is not a fashion person (she dresses very well and professionally, but she's not a clothes horse) but if she wins then everything she wears on Jan 20 is instantly going to be a moment of history. I hope she has someone on her team or her family to help her keep that in mind. She doesn't have to suddenly transform and come out in something so iconic we're all referencing it like Lady Di's revenge dress, but she does need to consider the optics because she'll be the first female President so there's a good chance that the photos of her on her Inauguration Day will be included in history books for decades to come.
Traditionally the first lady will get her inauguration ball dress designed by a relatively unknown or up-and-coming designer rather than a fashion house because it supercharges that designer’s name recognition. Kamala Harris went with Black American designers for both her swearing-in suit and inauguration ball dress.
I hope she wears something understated and professional. The same sorts of things she'd wear to a courtroom and say "Kamala Harris, for the People." That kinda needs to be her persona during her Presidency, I'm just doing the same work I've always done, being the people's advocate.
But tailored to a T. That's the real key to making professional wear shine. She for sure can get something off the rack or something that's already in her closet, but she should be sure to get it tailored to her if it isn't already.
That's the real issue with Trump's suits. Considering he spends so much money on them he either doesn't get them tailored or his tailor hates him.
As far as Jewelery goes that’s “middle class expensive” at most though. I’ve gotten my wife Tiffany before for special events like bdays and anniversary’s and while it was a hit financially it wasn’t at the same level as “buying a berkin” or a 5k bracelet shaped like a “bent nail”.
Like this is achievable levels of expensive for most people and if my wife was doing something as big she’d probably be wearing a similarly priced pair of earrings and we are firmly “lower middle class”. I don’t see an issue here at all tbh.
Right! That’s like something you’d find in the Costco catalog and you’d be like OK well that’s pricey but Costco is always a good deal. They really do a good job picking their, stuff add to cart. It’s not costume jewelry. It shouldn’t cost 10 bucks.
The average salary for the San Francisco district attorney is $100k and the current salary for Attorney General of California is about $150k. Senators make around $175k and the VP salary is currently set at $235k. Not crazy wealthy, but certainly comfortable enough to afford $800 earrings. Especially if you consider that Doug was earning roughly a mil a year as a partner at his law firm.
She’s also the author of three books and has been Vice President for 3.5 years- which is a comfortable six figure salary. Don’t know why people are acting like these are $80k earrings or something. They’re modest, on-brand, and elegant without being showy. The literal only reason any of us are even talking about it is because the right tried to make it a conspiracy, then face-planted and had to pivot to this laughable non-argument.
I’m a college student and my basic diamond studs are 2000$ each for lab grown diamonds. 800$ for a grown woman is really not news worthy I agree with you. I promise Kamala and her husband can afford, and own, much more expensive jewelry. I would honestly bet she carefully considered her outfit and picked something that was nice and presentable without coming off as ostentatious.
It's expensive for poor people, who still wouldn't care about her earrings as much as so much of Trump's BS expenses. He was gifted millions from his parents, and managed to officially make losses from casinos (the house always wins, pretty sus). Her earrings after so many decades of hard work is nothing in comparison to all that bullshit.
Are they even $800 earings? Somebody trying to rage bait found a picture of earrings that look like them for $800. With the resolution of that picture, I'm sure there's a dozen different earrings I could find for $100 to $10,000
Last time it was her necklace, claiming it was some thousands of dollars. And at the resolution of that image I found something that looked identical for a couple hundred.
I'm so tired of this. Rage baiters make shit up. Then people post it here and spread it and spark these long conversations as though it's at all true. And it's not, it's just rage bait bullshit.
Honestly, I think it's pretty darn weird to get upset over a 60-year-old career woman having $800 earrings. Come on. Every other kid you meet has a $1000 iPhone.
Well, that depends on your earnings (yes, some people would like to have 800 usd in savings) but... It's not like some kind of extraordinary pricing for jewellery/clothing/accessories. Unlike some Balenciaga bags. And shoes.
Nothing as bad as some people would like for it to seem. I thought I misread the number and there was actually one more 0. Yes, that'd be outrageous.
Tiffany stuff goes wayyyy higher than $800, the mark up is insane. People going crazy about this should ask about Trump's watch collection. Shit, most world leaders wear 4-5 figure watches, except his mate Vlad who has single pieces worth at least several hundred thousand or more.
It’s not expensive considering her profession, length of her career, and status. My friends who work for big law in NYC routinely wear Van Cleef & Arpels. I’m a nobody and I’m wearing $3000 earrings right now.
It’s like one of the cheapest sets of earrings you can get from Tiffany’s lol. And this is juxtaposed to the guy wearing untailored suits that cost thousands of dollars with a Rolex on his wrist.
Yeah. Biden and Trump both regularly wear watches worth north of $10k and no one bats an eye. Kamala wears $800 earrings and she is called out of touch???
For the average person that’s still special occasions/save up a bit type of money. But on the other hand I didn’t know Tiffany jewelry even came that cheap.
$800 isn't nothing but it's not much. I'm half her age and a fraction of her net worth, I have two $100 silver pieces of jewelery from...The Pokemon Center. Mimikyu Necklace and sylveon ring
It’s not even particularly nice. Like they’re pretty and I’m not saying they’re bad or cheap, but for $800 it’s not those are going to be South Sea pearls and platinum. $800 from Tiffany is going to get you sterling silver and probably freshwater pearls.
it's expensive to the perpetually broke and terminally online wannabe leftists who think everyone in the country is either in the exact same financial situation as them or a bourgeoisie boot licking corporatist that wants the proles to die in the streets
in their eyes if you can afford $800 then you must have either inherited a house from your parents or exploited sweatshop workers
Your own link lists its only source as a webpage that says there is no proof that necklace is actually the Tiffany & Co. one or that if it is she personally purchased it. It could be a knockoff, it could be something the brand has lent or gifted her (very common with celebrities and politicians) or it could be something in her stylist’s collection (also very common with celebrities, I don’t know if politicians use stylists but I could definitely see Kamala using one with how cohesive and put together her style always is).
This!!!! It's very common for celebrities and public people to be loaned jewelry to wear at events. And there's no telling that it's not a knock-off, I've got some pretty nice looking knock-offs don't look like it unless they're inspected closely.
Social media users suggested the necklace was an 18-karat, yellow-gold piece, which retails for $62,000 from Tiffany & Co.'s HardWear line.
Your entire source is ‘social media users suggested’ something? Your own source links directly to Snopes, where it says the necklace does look similar, but it’s not been confirmed if that’s the same necklace or not. It could just as easily be gold plated and cost $100 rather than being solid gold.
He linked to a source that says this is entirely based on the claim of what some random person said on social media, and it has not in any way been confirmed. So I guess he should be praised for linking a source that says his statement is just baseless conjecture, but maybe he shouldn’t have made the statement at all, given that it is baseless conjecture…
It’s not baseless conjecture if you actually clicked the link, read the article, googled it from another source, and put aside your initial biases. This doesn’t make me pro-trump, but it does remind me that I am not immune to propaganda. I forgot that Kamala is also a politician and has flaws.
Take it as a lesson to still support your politician of choice, but don’t make them untouchable perfect idols in your mind.
While it's true that a Tiffany & Co. necklace that resembles the one worn by Harris exists and is listed for purchase at $62,000, and Vogue at one point reported that she was wearing a Tiffany & Co. necklace, there was no definitive evidence to confirm, nor deny, that Harris was wearing the $62,000 version of the gold chainlink necklace. We're waiting to hear back from Tiffany & Co. and Harris' camp, and will update this article if we receive a response.
The conclusion is ‘it looks similar, but we don’t know one way or the other.’
And that’s okay. It’s just a reminder that the politician you’re electing USED TO BE middle class but became a lot richer. Still a thousand times better than “Born with a platinum spoon in his mouth” pumpkin.
That’s what makes her an example of the American Dream. I don’t fault anyone for working hard and having money, I fault people who hoard billions of dollars more than they will ever need while paying the lowest wage possible and creating unsafe working conditions for the people who are actually generating that wealth. When those people attempt to interfere with our political system, that’s a major problem. Kamala has been a public servant all her life. I’d be upset if she COULDN’T afford a nice pair of earrings.
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u/zerovanillacodered 5d ago
Is it even that expensive? $800 pearl earrings? It’s definitely nice jewelry but less than 1,000 dollars