I thought that baiting men because they wear jewelry was long past.  Guess I was wrong.  From the New York Times, of all things:

Devon Turnbull, a young designer who is part of a Manhattan fashion collective called Nom de Guerre, is not what you’d call a mama’s boy — but he does like wearing her pearls. A few years ago, when she gave them to him, he had all 109 restrung onto a gold-link chain that hangs below his waist, like something between a prayer shawl and an overextended rosary. He took up pearl wearing for complex spiritual reasons having to do with Transcendental Meditation and a system of Vedic astrology called Jyotish. “But I also just always liked pearls,” Turnbull says.

 

At first his friends told him: “Oh, come on, you’re a straight guy. You can’t go out wearing pearls like that.” His simple response, “Why not?”