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Three Cheers for Tiffany & Co.
The ad makes it so normal—because that’s what it is.
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I can just imagine the internet bigots now: “I ain’t never agin buyin something from Tifanie.”
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Funny, I haven’t heard any hetero married couples complaining it ruined their marriage.
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As Audrey would say, “j’adore Tiffany!”
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Anyone who’s ever seen Breakfast at Tiffany’s knows the image used here is not where Audrey ate her croissant. What you see here is smaller and newer. not the iconic Fifth Avenue building
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Had to use this one. The other one wouldn’t embed.
Pro-Tip: If you get invited to THAT wedding, and there is NO WAY you can afford a gift that would cover the cost of your dinner (likely), just do what I do: Bring a nice card and slap it on the biggest box on the gift table.
Voila! You are a gracious guest.
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This is great for the diamond merchants! Now they can convince us that both parties to an engagement must have an engagement ring, preferably really expensive ones. After all, how can your co-workers and BFFs judge how much you love one another without a splashy ring? More splash=more $=more love, right?
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Doughnut.
When I lived and worked in NY I would stroll Fifth Avenue to window shop. This was always a great place to look at the windows,
It was a Danish with coffee according to most sources.
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And, best of all, the price of crystallized carbon is kept artificially high by storing something like 90% of the diamonds mined each year in vaults lest consumers discover they’re about as rare as quartz and value them accordingly.
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Miss Manners and other arbiters of polite social customs would say a gift is not required, and particularly not one which matches the price of the wedding dinner. The guest’s presence and her well wishes is the gift to the couple.