Ask just about any woman you meet what her perfect choice of a shape for an engagement ring would be, and chances are that she will giggle shyly and offer oval as her first choice of engagement ring shape. So widely held is this believe that women prefer oval engagement rings that a man considering popping the ‘big question’ is usually advised to have an oval ring in his pocket to pop into the finger of his dream woman upon her acceptance of his proposal (in case he is a fan of casual engagement), or yet still suggest that they purchase an oval ring (when shopping with her for an engagement ring to use in a more formal engagement ceremony), so as to appear ‘as if he is ‘attuned’ to her psychologically and emotionally.’
But looked at more objectively, what is it that makes women love oval engagement rings?
While the answer to this question could vary depending on whom you ask, and what her mood happens to be at that moment, it would seem that the women’s love affair with oval engagement rings could have something to do with the fact that an oval engagement ring makes the fingers look much more sleek than say a perfectly circular engagement ring. Keeping in mind the well known fact that women have a penchant for sleek things (if their choice of other items like cars is anything to go by), then their love for oval engagement rings wouldn’t be surprising.
Speaking in a language that a man can understand, therefore, it turns out that when a woman tells you that she prefers an oval, what she is effectively saying is that she prefers a ‘sleek’ ring.
Of course, the ‘oval ring-sleek finger’ theory described above (as we may call it) is just one possible explanation as to why women love oval engagement rings. Someone else is bound to, at some point in time, come up with an alternative theory that women’s penchant for oval engagement rings has to do with the fact that the oval bears closer resemblance to the ‘love sign’ (the one that looks like a ‘heart’) than any other available engagement ring shape, and that theory could be as plausible as the other theory offered to explain the same phenomenon. We could even get someone else, probably a naughty person, advancing the argument that women prefer oval engagement rings because such oval rings are easier to pull out of finger upon sighting a lovelier suitor, and this too is an argument that would merit some attention.
Of course, the idea that women love oval engagement rings has to be seen for what it really is, namely a ‘stereotype’ and be viewed under the premise that stereotypes are not always correct about all people with regard to whom they are created. In spite of the majority of women who love oval engagement rings then, there will always be bound to be some women who wouldn’t ‘even consider’ oval for an engagement ring shape.
