Can I Wear a Hat Indoors?

Come winter, my extremities are always cold. This isn’t really a problem, except for my head. At home, I wear a hoodie or sometimes a wool babushka. But what to do at work or other indoor public places? What is the etiquette of hats indoors? — Patricia, Manchester Township, N.J. To wear or not to…

Celebrating Motherhood by Design

When the personal shopper Negar Alaya’s son River Declan Bear was two months old in July 2022, she began looking for a piece of jewelry to commemorate his birth. “I wanted something a little magical, a little mystical, an heirloom that was playful but not silly,” Ms. Alaya, 48, said by phone from her home…

The World of Jewelry in 4 New Books

Is jewelry storytelling entering an age of authenticity? From social media to reality TV, polished and aesthetically pleasing images have been giving way to real, more widely relatable looks. The trend has been reflected in publishing, too, as four books introduced this year rely on personal description and historical records, offering insights into the work,…

David Webb Celebrates 75 Years in Jewelry

“David Webb is unquestionably one of the leading 20th-century American jewelry designers,” Medill Higgins Harvey, associate curator of American decorative arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, said, “distinguished by his originality, the bold sculptural quality of his work, and the distinctive way in which it reveals a keen and nuanced sense of history and…