For a while now i’ve been meaning to wear one of these. Naturally my first response was “i’ve never seen guys wear them”…sure, a lot of girls were fashionable with those tiny silver/gold threads around their gorgeous ankles, but somehow the idea of a man wearing such jewelry was not appealing.
That is until i went to Egypt. In the airport i saw a tourist, wearing, you guessed it, an anklet. And it was not a metal one, but one made of hemp i think. And it looked as natural as he was born with it. I was hooked.
Then, last year while in Jerusalem, I saw another pair of tourists with threads around their ankles. And I began to wonder – will male anklets become a fashionable item or is it travelers symbol?
Either way, i bought some leather cords at a crafts store and made myself a simple anklet. Walking down the street I was pretty self-conscious, having the feeling that people were looking at me and pointing, not really seeing a guy wearing an anklet before. But it was all in my head. People don’t give a damn about you, even when they should.
And even though I get bored easily by such items, I will wear it with pride until the day I take it off!
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