From Paul Mescal to Barry Keoghan… Irish men seem to have rediscovered their sparkle
Troy Parrott is set to do for ‘mearrings’ what Paul Mescal did for the silver chain
In a civilised society, jewellery is only for women. Or so said the writer and historian H Clifford Smith in 1908. For him, male adornments were a mark of barbarism.
It was only in more primitive cultures that “the love of ornament is chiefly characteristic of men”. In civilised society, he argued, jewellery was more properly displayed by women alone: “The gentle sex has ever sought to add to its charms by adorning itself with jewels.”