Russian Federation Girl 2014 Fashion Diamond Engagement Ring 153

 Russian Federation Girl 2014 Fashion Diamond Engagement Ring.

 By Farzana Aamir 

Modern Days

So when a young couple enters a jewelry store to buy a diamond engagement ring, they are following a surprisingly recent custom, though one so strongly fixed in our culture it seems to have been here far longer. In fact, if it weren’t for Archduke Maximilian, a boy who lived in 1870’s South Africa and the marketing geniuses of De Beers Consolidated we might still be giving our fiancés cheap tumblers or rough looking iron rings. Whether the change is for the better probably depends on if you’re a man or a woman…

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