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<p>[QUOTE="Kimbert, post: 436358, member: 9204"]Not exactly jewelry, but I wasn't quite sure where to post it!</p><p><br /></p><p>So a few years ago, a woman gave me this comb (she thought of me because I have very long hair hahaha) , said it had just been sitting in a drawer for years ( she had short hair). I'm not sure how old it is, she was in her seventies I think and probably acquired it a long time ago. She told me she thought it was real tortoise shell. It just looks so plastic-y to my eye, but I've never handled anything made from tortoise shell. Does anyone know if it has a plastic-y feel to it or how to tell it apart from faux tortoise shell?</p><p><br /></p><p>And a more rhetorical question- how the heck can I pull off wearing this? I want to so bad because it's so cool, but it doesn't blend in with modern fashion the way most old jewelry does- every time I put it on it looks like I'm wearing a costume! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie51" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>[ATTACH=full]153109[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Kimbert, post: 436358, member: 9204"]Not exactly jewelry, but I wasn't quite sure where to post it! So a few years ago, a woman gave me this comb (she thought of me because I have very long hair hahaha) , said it had just been sitting in a drawer for years ( she had short hair). I'm not sure how old it is, she was in her seventies I think and probably acquired it a long time ago. She told me she thought it was real tortoise shell. It just looks so plastic-y to my eye, but I've never handled anything made from tortoise shell. Does anyone know if it has a plastic-y feel to it or how to tell it apart from faux tortoise shell? And a more rhetorical question- how the heck can I pull off wearing this? I want to so bad because it's so cool, but it doesn't blend in with modern fashion the way most old jewelry does- every time I put it on it looks like I'm wearing a costume! :hilarious: [ATTACH=full]153109[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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