Rings for Singles from Singelringen.com
Now, here’s a good idea, though Matt Katz, writing about www.singelringen.com, doesn’t sound sure. Singelringen’s Swedish founders are trying to start a movement linking being single to being cool, and signifying one’s single status with a ring, turquoise with a silver lining. No instructions on what finger or hand to wear it on.
Here’s what I think is so great about it: If this became a movement, then singles would have a pretty reliable way to identify other singles. Now, folks scan to see if someone’s wearing a wedding ring, but the absence of a ring doesn’t mean that a person is single. Particularly with men, for whom wedding rings are optional, even if they are married.
What Internet dating sites do that makes so much sense is that it helps singles identify easily other people who are looking for dates. Unfortunately, you can’t assume that these folks are really available (as in legal), but they are self-identifying as looking.
The rings do the same offline, in the real world. And it is a little hard to imagine someone wearing a singelringen if they weren’t single. Though of course it is possible. But what if it falls out of your pocket in the washing machine and your spouse finds it? Gotcha!
Wasn’t there some attempt a few years ago to sell single women diamond rings for their right hands? Can’t remember what they called the rings, but I am pretty certain that the diamond industry was hoping it would catch on. Frankly, that felt a little pathetic, like, if no guy gives me a diamond, I’ll buy one for myself.
Singelringen’s sound different, signaling single status for both men and women. Very handy.
From Your Romance Coach, Kathryn Lord
man, that’s a whole new variation on taking your ring off when you’re married and want to appear not to be—in all the detective novels the white strip of skin on the ring finger gives the philandering husband away. now he’ll just put a singelringen on and no one will know!
Posted by Susannah Gardner on 05/12 at 11:27 AM