# Tiaras! Tiaras! Tiaras! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 26, 2013, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiaras-tiaras-tiaras/667225 "2013-08-26T18:18:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiaras-tiaras-tiaras/667225/1 "2013-08-26T18:18:02Z")
Over a hundred pages of tiaras. If I were Empress of the World, every day would be a tiara wearing day. I’d wear them with sweatpants. I’d wear them with sneakers. I’d have one to wear to the beach, another to wear in the bathtub, another to wear when food shopping and maybe a few for a ball here and there. I would have tiaras for playing with the cats and tiaras for watching television and tiaras for strolling in the park and a tiara just because it was the 6th of March. [http://coloreddiamond.info/forum-chit-chat/do-you-have-a-dream-tiara/0/](http://coloreddiamond.info/forum-chit-chat/do-you-have-a-dream-tiara/0/) ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiaras-tiaras-tiaras/667225/2 "2013-08-26T18:23:25Z")
[Amy Farah Fowler?..](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmtpjALHRzY) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiaras-tiaras-tiaras/667225/3 "2013-08-26T20:24:49Z")
Well, thanks a lot! Now I’m not going to get anything done for a while! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiaras-tiaras-tiaras/667225/4 "2013-08-27T00:32:46Z")
Ah, tiaras! Everyone is surely familiar with this blog: [The Royal Order of Sartorial Splendor: Top 15: Readers' Favorite Tiaras](http://orderofsplendor.blogspot.de/2011/12/top-15-readers-favorite-tiaras.html) I have run in the Princess Half Marathon at Disney World for the past three years and the most wonderful part is being able to wear a tiara for the race. And for every moment afterwards until I arrive at the airport to go back home. I have been known to put my tiara on while planning the next year’s trip. I think I’m going to go make sure my tiara doesn’t need dusting. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiaras-tiaras-tiaras/667225/5 "2013-08-27T02:29:31Z")
I think [this](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p8uphKk8Li8/T1uX0VnynxI/AAAAAAAACLE/yjjI2XvHw7k/s1600/russian+kokoshnik+halo+tiare+russe+spike+diamond+enamel+blue.JPG) would be my go-to tiara. Then I could switch to [this](http://www.thecultureconcept.com/circle/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Cartier-Paris-1914-Small-Kokoshnik-Platinum-pearls-diamonds-and-onyx-720.jpg) one once in a while for variety. And [that](http://www.thecultureconcept.com/circle/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Cameo-and-Paul-tiara1.jpg) one for when I felt fancy. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiaras-tiaras-tiaras/667225/6 "2013-08-27T03:38:49Z")
> [@CrazyCatLady](#): > > I think [this](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p8uphKk8Li8/T1uX0VnynxI/AAAAAAAACLE/yjjI2XvHw7k/s1600/russian+kokoshnik+halo+tiare+russe+spike+diamond+enamel+blue.JPG) would be my go-to tiara. Then I could switch to [this](http://www.thecultureconcept.com/circle/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Cartier-Paris-1914-Small-Kokoshnik-Platinum-pearls-diamonds-and-onyx-720.jpg) one once in a while for variety. And [that](http://www.thecultureconcept.com/circle/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Cameo-and-Paul-tiara1.jpg) one for when I felt fancy. That first one is owned by the Duke of Westminster: > [@](#): > > [http://orderofsplendor.blogspot.com/2012/02/tiara-thursday-westminster-collection.html](http://orderofsplendor.blogspot.com/2012/02/tiara-thursday-westminster-collection.html) > > This one, however, is an unusually literal translation in which blue enamel serves to mimic the fabric kokoshniks were made of and diamond flowers translate to the ornamentation kokoshniks often featured. This one was originally bought by the 2nd Duke of Westminster; it left the family for a time before the current duke reacquired it. It is gorgeous. Kokoshnik is a really cool word. My Russian next door neighbor tells me koshka is Russian for cat which is nearly as cool a word. The others are pretty but I’ve never seen them before. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiaras-tiaras-tiaras/667225/7 "2013-08-27T13:18:08Z")
Me, I’m a henin fan. (That’s the pointy “princess hat” thing with a veil at the top.) I bought one on my honeymoon at Disneyworld. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiaras-tiaras-tiaras/667225/8 "2013-08-27T21:02:52Z")
The Russian tiara is nice, I have a fondness for enamelwork. I would love to have a kokoshnik tiara made based on enamel and opals, with peacocks as the theme. Of course I would have to win a significant lottery to be able to afford what I like, and to give me the finances to go to events that need that level of formality. Of course there are a lot of tiaras out there that are lovely, is there anything on how many you need for a suitable rotation so you don’t wear them too frequently in photographs?😛 ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiaras-tiaras-tiaras/667225/9 "2013-08-27T23:15:13Z")
I have a (cheap) tiara. I wore it all day for my 30th birthday. And a week from Sunday, I’ll wear it all day for my 40th. 🙂 Plus some days you just need to wear a tiara for the strange looks you get. 😉 . ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2013, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiaras-tiaras-tiaras/667225/10 "2013-08-28T02:10:43Z")
I don’t care as much as some folks do for the Russian style. I do like the pearl drop tiaras. I adore tiaras with colored stones. I’d love to have a tiara with lots of amethysts.