Uncategorized | June 30, 2008

What To Work For: Fetty Braille Jewelry

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What: Fetty Braille Bangle, $625

Why:  Sure, $625 is a hefty price tag to pay for a bangle bracelet, but this is no ordinary piece of jewelry. The concept is all in the name – the Fetty line features diamond braille words such as Yes, Forever, Try and Tomorrow. A favorite of Kate Moss, the Fetty Signature line is elegant and understated, but with an unexpected twist. Fetty also makes a more affordable Fame collection made of plated brass and Austrian crystal available at select boutiques nationwide. (check the website for a list of retailers.) 

Get Yours: barneys.com

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  • Kris

    OMG! Gorgeous. I can’t believe no one has done this sooner.
    my bf needs to get me this.

  • susan

    It is being done, by a few other companies, for much cheaper…and with braille that is actually readable. The braille on this bracelet (if the picture is reliable) is spaced so poorly that it doesn’t actually say anything at all. For $625, I would expect a little better job!

  • Niall Leighton

    I read Grade-1 Braille. I was taught it by my partner so I can leave notes for her and never make the error of buying another piece of Fetty “Braille” jewelry.

    The bracelet above does make some kind of sense to a sighted person – sort of. It reads, to someone with a visual impairment, as “kla,;a”.

    Their Luck bracelet almost reads “luck”. The only way to actually make it read “luck” would be to add a space after the initial “l”.

    What it actually says is “y [grade-2-symbol st] [grade-2-symbol sh]. So “ystsh”. Or, to put it another way, WTF?

    This was my partner’s expression when I bought her the Fetty pendant supposedly saying “baby” (it actually says “bab reverse-k reverse-l”, incomprehensible in Grade 2 Braille).

    The BFF pendant says “GDA” (that would be Guideline Daily Amount or Guide Dogs Association, I assume: the person who designed this clearly needs a guide dog).

    From a Braille reader’s perspective, the only accurate pendant, on closer examination, is the one saying “precious”. This seems to be more by chance, in that every character in the word contains dots in both columns of the Braille cell. In retrospect, I should have bought this one.

    The only way to make the pendant that is supposed to say “magnetic” read correctly would be to add a small space after the letter “a”.

    The “try” pendant reads “tr [space] y”. The “try” *bracelet* pictured on their blog is correct.

    “Love” is, not unusually, completely messed up. Their pendant says “&wo”. Thankfully, I didn’t get this one!

    I’ve also sat with a Braille chart trying to decipher their bracelets. This is a complete no-go area. It’s little more than random dots. It’s not coherent.

    Considering how much they charge for these things they could at least get their Braille accurate! They might also get a few more customers. Maybe even me again.

    There is a market for quality Braille jewelry. Few people are trying to fill this market. It would be great if these were accurate.