Off The Cuff

Tiffany Cuff Bracelet

An alternative to the jingly-jangly charm bracelets and clickety-clackety of beaded bangles is the cuff.  Big. Bold. Bodacious. Legendary Vogue editor Diana Vreeland was known to wear one on each wrist. Wonder Woman deflected bullets with her cuffs.

Feel like an empress and personalize your look with these statement bracelets. You can find them sculpted, bejeweled, or studded at jewelry retailers everywhere including Ten Thousand Villages, Saks Fifth Avenue, Evesaddiction.com, or Shimmerandstones.com.  You can also find gorgeous tooled leather cuffs that scream hippie chic at Etsy.com.

My favorite is the Tiffany’s “LOVE” cuff that was inspired by one of their 1970s designs (pictured at right).  At $15,000 for the 18K gold piece, it’s absolutely unaffordable for this fashionista but as Debbie Harry once sang, “dreaming is free.”