Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Accessorize!

Forget fashion, trends, style, blah blah. I think the best thing to have happened in recent times is the accessories boom. 'Fashion jewellery', as it is fashionably called and 'fancy jewellery', as it is locally called. By the way, I love this word: fancy. To be honest, I have taken a fancy to fancy.;)

har har.

Tis the season to be jolly, fa la la la la la la la la.


So, coming back to it, I love shopping for fashion jewellery. I think it is completely worth the money since it is quite reasonable and suits most occasions. I am not at all hung up on gold, silver, platinum, diamonds and so on. (Mostly because there is a limit to affording these heavy metals!) With fashion jewellery, you don't have to worry about fluctuating gold prices, the weight, the size, losing it, breaking it or be organised about stashing it in a locker after use.

And then there is the variety in the colours to consider...

Oh yeah, fancy jewellery is definitely this girl's best friend;)

P.S.

It is sometimes referred to as chappu chavaru (little bits of rubbish -- fondly speaking) and the action of shopping for these is sometimes called pee porukkal (no kind translation available with me!).

6 comments:

ARUNA said...

yes i too liked to indulge in pee prorukal in pondy bazaar when i was young. mmmmm now am 54 and though i would still love to do it there is no such place in this goltiland guntur sad very sad

sansmerci said...

i loveeeeeeee to pee porukai! fella chennai eh! do u write on chennai.burrp.com? chek it out!

hey am blogrollin u :)

Teesu (very very Indian, very very good) said...

no, I have not written for this burp place but call myself a freelance writer anyways! ANNNd, food's right up my alley! Your name sounds very familiar. You write for newspapers, don't you?

Unknown said...

Me too me too ...
I recently did some Porukal Vellai myself ... But what to do ... I am porukifying the US of A ... so not really cheap porukal .... me missing my porukal days in chennai !!!

Anonymous said...

I did some pee porukkal - what a brilliant term it is - shopping with amma yesterday... we thought of you with many giggles :)

Anonymous said...

ooooh I love accessories