Are you game for a Kayan-Lahwi neckring?
Jewellery itself is so fascinating but when you see something unusual, you just can't stop gushing about it and this is what happened to me too when I laid my eyes on Kayan Lahwi women's neckring . The neckwear may not be a masterpiece vis-a-vis aesthetics but the interesting trivia that goes with it, makes it all the more alluring. Hailing from Myanmar, the Kayan girls, as young as five years old, start wearing this brass coil around their neck and since it is a tedious task to coil and uncoil around one's neck, it is only removed when needs to be replaced with a longer one. Some of you may get excited to give it a try. But remember, the picture is not very rosy on the other side. Although the neck appears to be longer, in reality, the appearance of a stretched neck is created by deforming the clavicle. The clavicle is first lowered and then, the neckring is coiled around the neck. Otherwise, the area around the neck and collarbone gets bruised and discoloured. ...