Classically Abby - How To Wear Pearls As A MODERN Woman ｜｜ The Classic Girl's Guide To PEARLS

00:00:00.000 Hello Classic Crew and welcome to today's video where we're going to be talking about the Classic

00:00:05.480 Girl's Guide to Pearls. Pearls are one of the most classic pieces of jewelry that any woman 0.97

00:00:13.820 could own and so I'm so excited to share today that this video is being sponsored by the Pearl

00:00:19.800 Source. When the Pearl Source reached out to me I was so excited to make contact with them because

00:00:24.880 I absolutely love pearls. Pearls are something that I think should be part of every girl's

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00:01:12.820 tastes. So for example, I wanted a choker style string of pearls so I got these and they are the

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00:01:34.720 through the process. This is the perfect time of year to gift a set of pearls to a family member,

00:01:39.860 to a loved one, to a wife, or to yourself. They are just absolutely stunning and can be worn in so

00:01:45.760 many ways. So today I'm actually going to be showing you five different outfits that you can wear pearls

00:01:51.720 with and they are all inspired by really classic women. As I was thinking about pearls and what I

00:01:57.040 wanted to do for this video, I started to realize how many classic looks we associate with pearls and

00:02:03.760 so I wanted to take those as inspiration and kind of update them for the modern world and so I found

00:02:09.600 inspiration from four classic looks that are worn with pearls and I made kind of my own version of

00:02:15.160 those outfits. And then the last look that I'll be showing you is just something that I would wear

00:02:19.620 with pearls but I wanted to show you guys how many outfits you can wear with pearls. That pearls are

00:02:25.360 something that are actually really easy to wear with a ton of different things and they're not just

00:02:30.060 something for really fancy occasions. Although they can be for more dressy situations, you can also wear

00:02:35.920 them in less dressy situations. I have a real sentimentality for pearls because I wore my mother's

00:02:41.480 pearls on my wedding day and pearls mean a lot to me for that reason. So I love wearing them. I think

00:02:47.200 that they are just the most classic thing any woman could own and have in her collection and so I'm

00:02:52.480 really excited to share with you these five looks that are super classic and inspired by these classic

00:02:57.940 women. And in all of these looks I'll be wearing pearls sent to me by the Pearl Source. So make sure to 1.00

00:03:03.120 check them out. The link will be in the description box. So let's get into it. So the first look that popped

00:03:08.200 into my head when I was thinking about pearls was of course Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's.

00:03:14.060 That is such an iconic look. The little black dress, the strings of pearls around her neck,

00:03:18.880 and she just looks absolutely beautiful and classic in that look. It is super iconic and I think we can

00:03:23.620 all kind of reference that. So I really wanted to start off by wearing an outfit inspired by that.

00:03:28.980 I chose a little black dress from my closet that I love. It's so modest. It fits me so well.

00:03:35.140 It's just a little A-line but it's very fitted on top which I love. It has a very high neckline but

00:03:40.100 it hits below the knee and I absolutely love this dress. It's super flattering and very versatile

00:03:44.660 and I just paired it with a little pair of black heels. I love these because they're pretty classic

00:03:50.100 but they have that modern twist of the lucite heel which I love. They're just a little short heel

00:03:54.580 which is very kind of reminiscent of all of the heels that Audrey Hepburn wears in her movie. She 0.99

00:03:59.380 always wears just a little heel and I loved kind of that look. I thought that would be like a little

00:04:03.240 nice throwback to her and I also chose a little sparkly clutch to wear because if you're gonna

00:04:08.200 wear this maybe to a cocktail party or something it's nice to have something that's going to catch

00:04:12.280 the eye but that isn't super distracting and this purse just does the trick. But of course the thing

00:04:17.160 that really is the star of the show here is the necklace and the earrings. I'm wearing this string

00:04:22.360 of pearls which I absolutely love and of course really bring something special to the outfit.

00:04:26.840 They're an eight to nine millimeter white freshwater pearl necklace and they are quadruple a quality.

00:04:32.040 They're just gorgeous. They're not very expensive at all if you think about getting a string of pearls.

00:04:36.920 The pearl source has such great prices and I think these are absolutely stunning and they totally match

00:04:42.760 the earrings that I'm wearing as well which are just these little small studs. I think they're so

00:04:47.320 beautiful and they're just so classic. They elevate this outfit that without these pearls the outfit would just be

00:04:53.800 okay but with the pearls oh my goodness is it a standout. Of course incredibly inspired by the

00:04:59.400 lovely Audrey Hepburn but also this is a beautiful outfit on its own. The next outfit I wanted to show

00:05:04.840 you guys was inspired by Jackie O. Jackie Onassis. Her look was so beautiful and so iconic. She wore such

00:05:11.320 beautiful clothing and one of the things that really did make her stand out was the way that she wore pearls 0.85

00:05:15.880 and I think something about her that was very kind of iconic was her short little square boxy jackets.

00:05:21.240 So I wanted to pick one of those out of my closet and pair it with something that was a little bit

00:05:25.080 more fitted and I think that was a good way for me to emulate her look without it just being an exact 0.60

00:05:31.160 replica of her outfit and of course wearing a beautiful set of pearls that just kind of again

00:05:37.240 brings it all together. So I'm wearing this beautiful dress from Antonio Milani. I love this dress.

00:05:42.520 It has a really beautiful square neckline. It's very fitted and I paired it with a Club Monaco little boxy

00:05:48.440 jacket which I think is very flattering. If you're going to wear a boxy jacket wearing something fitted

00:05:52.600 with it is very important. It balances it out and the length of the boxy jacket hits right at the waist

00:05:57.240 so it doesn't make you look oversized. It really just emphasizes your waist in a nice way and to add

00:06:02.920 just a little bit of color to this outfit I put on a pair of turquoise heels and those turquoise heels 0.99

00:06:07.560 just give a little bit of extra oomph to the outfit and keep the whole look from just staying totally 0.99

00:06:12.360 neutral which I absolutely love. I love having a little pop of color in my outfits and for this

00:06:17.000 look I wore a six and a half to seven millimeter Japanese Akoya white pearl necklace which is a

00:06:21.720 triple A quality pearl and I liked wearing a slightly smaller pearl with this look. I thought it was a

00:06:27.960 very beautiful way to elevate the entire outfit and again this string of pearls I love having a round

00:06:34.840 pearl necklace with a square neckline. I think that's very flattering and very unique. It's kind of

00:06:39.720 playing with geometry and I love that. This whole look again is totally elevated by wearing a pair

00:06:45.000 of pearls like this but these two outfits you can see can be worn in totally different ways. One is

00:06:49.240 a little bit more businessy, one is a little bit more cocktail hour, but they both are elevated by

00:06:54.040 wearing pearls. The next lady that I took inspiration from was Margaret Thatcher. Now Margaret Thatcher,

00:06:59.240 the Iron Lady. I love that she was such a strong woman but always wore very feminine suits, wore pearls, 0.85

00:07:05.960 was a woman who embraced her femininity while also being incredibly strong and incredibly influential 0.98

00:07:11.960 and so I wanted to take inspiration from that. I didn't want to replicate her look entirely so I did

00:07:17.400 decide to wear a wide leg pant instead of wearing a skirt suit. I thought that that would just kind of

00:07:23.000 bring it a little bit more into the modern day. So I wore these navy blue wide leg pants which if you've

00:07:28.360 watched my channel you've seen me wear these plenty of times. I absolutely love these pants. I just think

00:07:32.840 they're so modern and I wear them all the time for my channel because I just think they're such a good

00:07:38.440 staple to have in your closet. And I paired them with just this blouse, this button-down blouse,

00:07:42.840 that's a little bit more cream than white and I like that it's kind of this off-white color. It's

00:07:48.600 very flattering. And then I just chose this J.Crew blazer and threw that on top. So it looks like a

00:07:54.360 suit but it's actually complete separates. Everything in here is separates. I wore a navy blue heel as well

00:07:59.560 just to keep everything neutral and a navy blue watch which again I love because I really wanted

00:08:04.440 the focus of this outfit to be the pearls. I think that this outfit really benefits from having a pearl

00:08:09.880 necklace. It goes from something that's a little bit more masculine and adds that touch of femininity,

00:08:14.360 that touch of grace, and I think that this necklace and these pearl earrings just totally change the

00:08:19.320 outfit and it's another great way to wear them, right? You could wear them to work, you can wear them

00:08:23.160 to a cocktail hour. This is a great look for you to wear to work. And the nice thing is it can definitely

00:08:28.120 transition to the evening as soon as you take that blazer right off. The fourth look that I

00:08:32.200 wanted to share with you guys is Kate Middleton. Now Kate Middleton actually doesn't often wear 0.99

00:08:37.000 pearl necklaces. She generally wears pearl earrings and she wears a lot of A-line dresses that I think

00:08:43.240 are just very flattering. They usually have just a little pattern on them and then she'll wear just

00:08:47.880 a short heel. So I really wanted to emulate that look today. Not necessarily any specific look but

00:08:53.720 just something similar to what she generally wears. So I took this dress out of my closet which I

00:08:58.600 haven't worn for quite a while. It's a Brooks Brothers dress that I love. I actually wore this

00:09:02.760 when my husband and I got engaged and I chose to wear it with these shoes which I actually wore on

00:09:07.720 my wedding day. And this whole outfit is something that I think is very classic, very royal. It's very

00:09:14.440 simple but flattering and I just love the pairing of the silver and the gold in the actual pattern of the

00:09:20.280 dress which allows you to wear silver and gold accessories. So the shoes are a little bit more

00:09:25.240 silver but the necklace that I paired this look with was actually a pendant rather than a string

00:09:31.480 of pearls because of the neckline. This Akoya Pearl and Diamond Melissa pendant is absolutely lovely. I

00:09:37.080 love the little design over the pearl. The pendant itself is just stunning and it just adds a little

00:09:42.920 hint of sparkle to this look. It doesn't compete with the neckline, it just kind of adds a little

00:09:47.480 something. And I wore just my studs again. I think that these studs honestly can be worn with anything

00:09:52.280 which is why I absolutely love pearl studs. Definitely having a pair of pearl studs is a must

00:09:58.120 in your jewelry collection. So I love these. I wore them with every outfit so far and they just look

00:10:03.320 great. They go from really fancy to a little bit more dressed down. And this outfit is another great

00:10:09.080 look to wear to a cocktail hour or to wear to a fancy dinner. Of course I wore it when I got engaged.

00:10:15.800 Now the last look here wasn't inspired by anyone. It was just an example of how I would wear pearls

00:10:21.320 in a more casual way because the four other looks that I showed you guys are a little bit

00:10:25.240 more on the dressy side. So I did want to show you how you can wear pearl studs in a way that was

00:10:29.960 just a little bit more casual. And as you guys know most of us are not dressing up super often these

00:10:34.680 days. We are generally wearing things that are just a bit more casual and a little bit more dressed

00:10:39.080 down. I like to still look a little bit more dressed up and elevated even when I'm casual.

00:10:44.120 So this is the look that I chose. I found this skirt on Amazon and I love it. It's super easy,

00:10:50.200 was very inexpensive, fits really nicely. It's just this navy blue and white polka dot skirt with

00:10:56.360 buttons down the side. It's a cool length. It's more like a midi for me. I don't know if you're a

00:11:01.000 little bit shorter. It might be more like a maxi. I really love how it fits. And I paired it with this

00:11:06.120 sweater that's from Target. I love the length of this sweater. I tucked it in just to get that blousey

00:11:11.160 effect but it has really cool dolman sleeves and a very interesting neckline. So I then paired this

00:11:16.280 look with blue lace-up booties just to make it even more casual. This is something I would wear

00:11:20.440 to a farmer's market or maybe just to hang out with friends on a Sunday afternoon to a girl's

00:11:26.840 brunch or something like that. And what I thought would elevate this outfit just a bit more was a

00:11:31.800 small pair of pearl earrings. I love the pearl earrings with this especially with the polka dot

00:11:37.160 skirt. I just think that is so classic. Such a cool combination and I absolutely love these earrings

00:11:43.960 with this look. They really take it from cute and fun to a little bit more elevated and refined.

00:11:49.400 So those are the five outfits I wanted to show you guys today. Show you how you can take this classic

00:11:53.960 piece of jewelry and really wear it in the modern day and also wear it with so many different outfits

00:11:59.080 and how we can find inspiration from these classic looks and classic women. I love the way that these 0.67

00:12:05.160 pearls make my outfits change from something that is just okay to something that's really

00:12:10.040 elegant and refined. I love wearing pearls. They mean a lot to me but I also just think they are

00:12:15.000 just one of the most classic pieces that any woman could own and I hope you guys will check out the

00:12:20.040 pearl source for yourself. I'm so grateful that they sponsored today's video because I really think

00:12:24.680 that having a great set of pearls can totally change the way that you look at your jewelry collection.

00:12:30.200 It's just something that you can easily put on with so many outfits and it'll take you to that

00:12:35.080 classic elegant refined place. So I'll have all of the pieces I talked about today linked in the

00:12:40.440 description box below as well as just their general website so you can take a look at what

00:12:44.280 they have and see if you're interested in something else. Again, I think these would make

00:12:48.280 perfect gifts for the holiday season. Let me know in the comments below if you love pearls as much as

00:12:53.000 I do. Which of these outfits was your favorite? I'd love to know. Thank you guys so much for watching

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Classically Abby - November 30, 2020

How To Wear Pearls As A MODERN Woman ｜｜ The Classic Girl's Guide To PEARLS

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