You've come a long way baby...."What a big beautiful diamond, your fiancé must be really rich"

...or have we? Ad fan Kariann sent us this scan of an ad she found in a 1980's women's fashion magazine. An early example of that "two months salary" rule - yikes. These days DeBeers pushes right hand rings to women, since nobody is getting married anymore. ;)

DeBeers

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Eighties hairdo and eighties italics in the copy. Feels like... someone freebased too much glue