This happened to me. Dad proposed to Mom with his mother's ring, parents split when I was a baby, and the court decided I got the ring which my Mom kept then "lost" for 20 some odd years and then magically it was found by my sister when my now husband wanted to propose.

When my parents divorced, my mom had the stones from her (non-heirloom) engagement ring re-set into a necklace for me. She gave it to me on my 16th. :)

In general, this is true, and I am not a girl who goes for the bling. However, I have to defend my adorable husband's decision to buy me a diamond engagement ring because he bought a Canadian diamond, and knowing that I, a geology student at the time, would inspect the shit out of that diamond under a microscope, it…

Oh, this indie anti-diamond thing really grates on me. Really, all diamonds are inherently ostentatious? Teeny tiny ones? Antique ones? I can see not wanting to buy blood diamonds, but beyond that and personal preference, I don't get it.

This is what my good friend did. She kept the ring for their daughter, who will get it on her 16th bday.

I felt the same way, but my boyfriend really wanted to get me a ring, so we ended up getting that shit designed by a jeweler. This is the ring I ended up with, which is both SO MUCH PRETTIER and SO MUCH CHEAPER than a real engagement ring.

I didn't want one either, it's not part of my culture and makes me vaguely uncomfortable; my husband was on board but then his mother passed on an heirloom and he proposed with it because that's sweet of her. I accepted it, appreciate it, wear it occasionally, but would give it back immediately in the event of a…

I don't get why people don't just out sand say they're in it (it = the engagement ring bidnis) for the attention and the jewelry. Kudos to you for being out with it.

Ok, what if there is an heirloom STONE in the ring but the rest was purchased by my ex-husband whom I am 100% not on good terms with. He does have a tolerable sister. Is is cool to just send back the diamond or whatever?

I was engaged once to a wonderful woman. She was killed in a car accident several months before the wedding. I did not give the ring a single thought until a couple of days after the funeral, when her parents returned it to me. I wasn't sure what to do with it. Eventually I took it back to the store where I bought…

You can buy second hand rings...?

I kept it when I found he'd cheated (she answered his phone and we chatted) and then I returned it to Tiffany. I got ALL the money.

People who keep heirloom rings are THE WORST. I can't wrap my head around that kind of entitlement. If he got it at some shit mall jewelry store? Meh go for it, if it was carried to this country on the hand of a dear relative? You give that shit back.

YES. THIS IS THE BEST TREND EVER. I hate heels. I hope they go out out of fashion forever and people will only be expected to wear comfy shoes (at ALL occasions) that do not make your feet hurt like hell/make walking and dancing difficult/can give you health issues. THANK YOU FASHION GODS for finally listening to my…

My younger sister swears she not only kept an engagement ring after her then-fiance dumped her, she used the diamond to key his car.

Those are dope, too, Beatrix Kiddo.

If the whole "long legs are the only fashionable legs" thing could die a hard death soon too, that would be great. Because if I'm in a skirt and flats, no matter how fashionable those flat shoes are, my legs look like they are two inches long. So it'd be nice if we could fit that into normcore somehow.

I'm at work and wearing these right now:

They don't make stilettos. :(

As someone with feet that my podiatrist called "the weirdest looking feet" he's ever seen, I would be really excited if orthopedic-looking shoes became fashionable. As it stands I have a pair of $800 custom inserts for my sad feet. I insert them into flats and go about my business. Every time I wear heels I fall over.…