-Fratello Watches
There is something about the pinky ring. This small piece of jewellery casts a powerful message: a statement. It makes a man look and behave differently – more aware of his hand and its gestures. The pinky ring has accompanied so many historical and social settings, from royal to stray, from gangster to gay and from BC to TV. Here’s a tale about the hand’s golden tooth.
In a vintage Saturday Night Live scene, actor Joe Pesci (Raging Bull, Good Fellas, Casino, A Bronx Tale, Home Alone) is looking for a new pinky ring at ‘Armonte’s Pinky Ringery’. He tries on a few while under supervision of pinky ring gods Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin from the wall behind. Without a word, Pesci performs several short acts in the mirror: recognizable wise guy mannerisms and gestures that would have made even Mother Theresa look gangster. It is in this way of doing, that the pinky ring adds ‘a little sumthin sumthin’ or even a touch of violence to some men (members of the mafia who had killed people traditionally wore them as pictures taken between the 1940’s and 1990’s show). Pesci hits the right spot: the pinky is primarily associated with (wannabe) mobsters. On the other hand, pinky rings were preserved for higher social classes from British royals to American college graduates and military officers.
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