Nameplate Necklace

PRODUCT A thin gold necklace with a gaudy monogrammed nameplate

HOW IT STARTED Popular with teenage girls in the 1980s; Carrie of Sex and the City has helped revive the look

JUDGMENT CALL A humorous nod to your high school days. Back then it was a sign of pubescent narcissism; now (for a few months, anyway) it's retrochic

Sex and the City may be winding down its season, but at least one of the show's fashion statements is demonstrating staying power. When Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) this season started sporting a nameplate necklace, that signature of '80s teen style...

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