https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lefties-which-hand-do-you-wear-your-watch-and-rings-on Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:04:40 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lefties-which-hand-do-you-wear-your-watch-and-rings-on#post-1440486 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 20:59:49 +0000 milehighstyle (Linda) 1440486@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Like Astrid, I'm not sure I'm a true lefty either.&nbsp; I write and eat and brush my teeth with my left hand, but I do a lot of things righty too.&nbsp; I play all sports right handed (though I think I shoot billiards lefty, it's been awhile).&nbsp; Right handed scissors, no problem.&nbsp; So I wouldn't say that my left is dominant.&nbsp; That being said, I wear my watch and wedding ring on my left wrist and hand.&nbsp; I wear other rings and bracelets on my right hand and carry my bag on my right shoulder. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lefties-which-hand-do-you-wear-your-watch-and-rings-on#post-1440166 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 06:04:03 +0000 Adelfa 1440166@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm a lefty. I wear my watch on my left wrist--it doesn't bother me at all, even if I add bracelets. I wear rings on my right hand, and carry my purse on my right shoulder. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lefties-which-hand-do-you-wear-your-watch-and-rings-on#post-1440137 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 04:05:42 +0000 old chic 1440137@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have been a rightie for all of my many years, but I broke my left wrist while on vacay last year and had to have a plate and screws put in to repair it. My watch no longer fits that arm, so I had to move it to my right. It has been my intention to get a link put back in so I could once again wear my watch on my left hand, but I haven't gotten around to it. So now it seems natural to look at my watch on my right arm. I don't know whether I should change back or not. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lefties-which-hand-do-you-wear-your-watch-and-rings-on#post-1440128 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 03:30:27 +0000 Anonymous 1440128@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>When I wore a watch it was always on my right wrist -- I hated the feeling of something pressing against the veins (arteries?) in my left wrist&nbsp;as I wrote. (In those&nbsp;pre-computer days I was literally a pencil-pusher at work, and&nbsp;I had the middle-finger callus to prove it.)&nbsp;Wedding ring on my&nbsp;left hand, but it's a small thin eternity band.&nbsp;Shoulder bag, right shoulder -- but I'd tuck&nbsp;a clutch under my left arm.&nbsp;And&nbsp;if I had to kick something, it would be&nbsp;with my left foot. (I'm thinking a stray soccer ball, by the way -- nothing breathing!)</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lefties-which-hand-do-you-wear-your-watch-and-rings-on#post-1440111 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 02:48:00 +0000 elizabeth 1440111@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am left handed and I have started to wear my wedding ring on my right hand. I ordered a very thin wedding band to wear on my left hand. I squeeze my fingers together and it hurts to wear my wedding ring when I write. It is so uncomfortable that I started wearing a skin colored gel thing that you actually wear on your toe. It prevents my ring from digging painfully into my pinkie ring when I'm writing. I'm sick of wearing it! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lefties-which-hand-do-you-wear-your-watch-and-rings-on#post-612994 Sat, 05 May 2012 17:50:20 +0000 Vicki 612994@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My brother is also lefty (he's six years younger) and yet my twin sister (fraternal) and parents are right-handed.</p> <p>Thanks Fruitful, and yes there is a lot of &hearts; here! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lefties-which-hand-do-you-wear-your-watch-and-rings-on#post-612061 Fri, 04 May 2012 05:28:32 +0000 Astrid 612061@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Fruitful, I don't turn the paper either. From us four children are three lefties, my mum is a lefty that had to learn to write with the right hand and my dad is right-handed. My mum has the most beautiful handwriting, even though she doesn't write with her dominant hand! I think two of my dad's brothers are also lefties. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lefties-which-hand-do-you-wear-your-watch-and-rings-on#post-612060 Fri, 04 May 2012 05:27:54 +0000 catgirl 612060@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm a total lefty. I don't wear my wedding ring - it was not expensive and it hangs on a carabiner on my climbing harness. I don't wear a watch either, but if I did, it would be on my right hand because I can fasten it with my left. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lefties-which-hand-do-you-wear-your-watch-and-rings-on#post-612001 Fri, 04 May 2012 03:46:10 +0000 Elly 612001@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>neat code trick! Thanks for sharing.</p> <p>I have two male cousins that are lefties, apparently some great uncles that were but were beaten as kids not to write with their left hands, so now are horrible righties, and my mom.</p> <p>IDK if it is genetic or just that she taught me how to write and I always tend to pick things up from the person that taught me (I knit right handed, and can do a lot of other tasks with both hands because I was taught half by my mom and half by my righty family). </p> <p>She actually curves her hand and completely turns the paper upside down. She signs her name in her checkbook by having it open toward the cashier and not toward her. Prettiest handwriting though! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lefties-which-hand-do-you-wear-your-watch-and-rings-on#post-611981 Fri, 04 May 2012 03:22:30 +0000 Fruitful 611981@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Elly, most lefties I see turn the paper I around (I turn my arm and body! Awkward! :))</p> <p>I don't think it's a coincidence your mum is a lefty - isn't there a genetic component? I might be wrong. But my brother and aunt are lefthanded (not my kids though - sadface)</p> <p>Vicki, I'll put it in capitals so it doesn't make the symbol. You just type (not in capitals) &amp;HEARTS;</p> <p>Some html works on this forum, some doesn't. But &hearts; works which is very handy, since there's so much to love here ^_^ </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lefties-which-hand-do-you-wear-your-watch-and-rings-on#post-611977 Fri, 04 May 2012 03:13:27 +0000 Elly 611977@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Cool! More lefties---- backwards scissors power!</p> <p>Apparently I just need to find more comfortable engagement and wedding jewelry next time around. I was previously engaged and hated the ring with a passion-- uncomfortable and I cut myself and other people regularly with the high setting. I don't usually have that problem with my right hand. I still find it slightly uncomfortable, but I have better luck with a vintage ruby band of my great great great grandmother's. </p> <p>Coincidentally, my mom is a lefty. She wears her wedding rings on the left hand but her watch on the right. She has larger hands and dainty jewelery and it doesn't look quite as nice as the matched set of chunkier pieces I often see women wear. </p> <p>She doesn't have issues with her rings, but she actually writes by turning her paper upside down and backwards. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lefties-which-hand-do-you-wear-your-watch-and-rings-on#post-611801 Fri, 04 May 2012 01:04:15 +0000 Vicki 611801@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Another lefty checking in here and I wear my ring on the left, but I always wear my watch on the right wrist. It just feels more *normal* that way! I also wear my purse on my right shoulder. Elly, I love your question posed to Angie about the watch and ring split and the "lonely" on the dominant hand concept. p.s. How do you make your sweet heart symbol, Fruitful? I would have added that, too, because I love lefties!!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lefties-which-hand-do-you-wear-your-watch-and-rings-on#post-611732 Fri, 04 May 2012 00:03:16 +0000 Aziraphale 611732@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Not a southpaw, but my best friend is, and she wears both her watch and wedding rings on her left hand. It doesn't bother her. I don't suspect it would bother me, either, because I always wear one ring on each hand, and the one I wear on my right (dominant) hand is bigger than my wedding rings. I don't always wear my (cuff-like leather) watch, but when I do, I often wear a matching cuff-style bracelet on the other hand. I guess feeling 'lopsided' is more bothersome to me than being decorated! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lefties-which-hand-do-you-wear-your-watch-and-rings-on#post-611708 Thu, 03 May 2012 23:17:39 +0000 teeandcee 611708@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Lefty for the most part here. I prefer my watch and rings on my left arm/hand. They feel off and uncomfortable on my right arm/hand, although I do wear rings on that hand regardless. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lefties-which-hand-do-you-wear-your-watch-and-rings-on#post-611603 Thu, 03 May 2012 20:11:44 +0000 DonnaF 611603@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Leftie who has always worn her watches on the right; doubt if I could fasten them if worn on the left. I don't think I have ever tried the left side! Wedding ring is on the traditional left side. Don't wear other rings, but IIRC, I used to wear another ring on my right. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lefties-which-hand-do-you-wear-your-watch-and-rings-on#post-611177 Thu, 03 May 2012 09:22:55 +0000 Astrid 611177@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Just wanted to add that maybe I'm not a 'real' lefty after all. The only thing I have to do with left is writing, I never used all the other things that are especially designed for lefties. My teachers always were astonished that I wrote with left because they said I had such good penmanship! My sister and one of my brothers are lefties too. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lefties-which-hand-do-you-wear-your-watch-and-rings-on#post-611176 Thu, 03 May 2012 09:19:20 +0000 StephanieR 611176@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm lefthanded, when I wear a watch it's on my right - rings I rarely wear but when I do it's a mix of right and left. I carry my bag on my right. As for handwriting, I had a massive run in with a teacher when I was about 8 years old, dip ink pens and left handers don't mix well and trying to make me write the same was as righthanders didn't work. I always get told I look awkward using scissors even using proper left handed ones. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lefties-which-hand-do-you-wear-your-watch-and-rings-on#post-610699 Wed, 02 May 2012 21:24:12 +0000 Fruitful 610699@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hi Elly! I'm lefthanded and when I wore a watch, I always wore it on my right. More comfortable that way, the knob doesn't stick into my hand when I flex my wrist.</p> <p>A teacher told my I wrote "backhanded" (sloping left) in grade 3. I ordered The Lettering Book from Bookclub and traced until I had all forward leaning cursive writing. And yeah, I was a fountain pen fail - ink everywhere! </p> <p>I &hearts; lefties </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lefties-which-hand-do-you-wear-your-watch-and-rings-on#post-609892 Wed, 02 May 2012 02:34:35 +0000 Jem 609892@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Another leftie, here. I wear my watch on my left hand. I have rings on both hands. I think I mostly carry my purse on my left arm, too. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lefties-which-hand-do-you-wear-your-watch-and-rings-on#post-609866 Wed, 02 May 2012 02:04:59 +0000 Elly 609866@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Awesome-- good to know I'm not the only leftie . . . . but apparently I write weirdly!</p> <p>Ok, I already knew that, I'll admit. I hold a pen very unusually and often have the ink up my arm as well as on my hand. Apparently I'm brain damaged but no one told my dominant side, so I'm still left-handed, but also do things "weird"!</p> <p>I had a horrible time when I was engaged--- prongs were my enemy! But maybe I'm the only one . . . </p> <p>Luckily, it isn't too much of an issue since most hand jewelry is kinda a no-no at work. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lefties-which-hand-do-you-wear-your-watch-and-rings-on#post-609716 Wed, 02 May 2012 00:32:26 +0000 fauxpas 609716@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Left. Purebred. It all goes on the left. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lefties-which-hand-do-you-wear-your-watch-and-rings-on#post-609623 Tue, 01 May 2012 22:58:59 +0000 Sarah A 609623@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Another lefty! I wear my watch on the right and my wedding ring (when I wear it...) on the left. DH said the other morning "Oh my, I am having breakfast with a married woman today!"... as my lack of adornment is quite the running joke in our house. I feel like a ring and bracelet/watch on the same arm is almost too much for my taste. I typically dont wear a watch and bracelet at the same time either.</p> <p>I used to always carry a bag in my left hand/left shoulder because of being in the military and needing to have the right hand available to salute, but i have just about broken that habit now. Usually if i have a crossbody bag i place it on the right shoulder and it hangs at the left side. A straight tote type bag i carry on the right shoulder along with DD2 on the right hip and hold DD1's hand with my left hand when we go out.</p> <p>ETA: I feel more comfortable mixing metals too since the wedding ring and bracelet/watch are on different wrists with some geographical distance. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lefties-which-hand-do-you-wear-your-watch-and-rings-on#post-609609 Tue, 01 May 2012 22:46:54 +0000 Beth Ann 609609@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Lefty, here! I don't wear a watch, but if I did it would have to be on the left hand. The right would feel strange. I carry my bag on the left, too!</p> <p>I'm not bothered by rings on either, hand, but, because I'm a musician playing instruments all day, I use both hands pretty extensively. Bangles and bracelets go on the right hand, always, and the left side of my hand is always covered in ink, from dragging it through my writing. Sigh.</p> <p>BTW -- doors drive me crazy. They all open the wrong way! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lefties-which-hand-do-you-wear-your-watch-and-rings-on#post-609548 Tue, 01 May 2012 21:32:07 +0000 rae 609548@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm not a lefty, but I prefer to have my dominant hand free, too. I rarely wear bracelets but prefer them on my left arm - even if I put one on the right without thinking, it bugs so much I have to switch at work. I also usually carry my bag in my left hand - right is free to dig for keys, open doors, etc. I do wear statement rings on my right, but mostly because they don't hinder my dexterity and I want to keep the wedding ring hand uncluttered. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lefties-which-hand-do-you-wear-your-watch-and-rings-on#post-609545 Tue, 01 May 2012 21:25:39 +0000 Astrid 609545@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm a lefty and I wear watch and rings on my left hand. I never had a problem with my writing. I get crazy when I try to wear a ring on my right hand, it really bothers me, although I can wear a bangle on the right. I also carry my bag on the left side because it feels much more natural to me. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lefties-which-hand-do-you-wear-your-watch-and-rings-on#post-609536 Tue, 01 May 2012 21:15:18 +0000 Elly 609536@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Do we have any lefties here?</p> <p>Since watches and rings have been a bit of a topic lately, I'd thought I'd ask. </p> <p>Most watches are meant to be worn on the left hand (all the controls/winding knobs are for righties) and most women wear engagement rings and wedding bands on the left hand. </p> <p>Personally for me I beat the heck out of jewelry on my dominant hand and also find it uncomfortable because of how I write. I even wear my purse on my right side so it isn't in the way of my dominant hand. I carry things with my right hand just to have my left side free. </p> <p>So lefties-- am I alone in my fussiness with my dominant hand? Do you just wear your jewelery on the opposite hand (social conventions and minor awkwardness be darned!), or do you not wear a wedding band or watch at all? </p> <p>If you wear only your wedding band on your dominant hand, does it look "lonely"? lol<br /> (I've sometimes wondered if Angie would be inclined to wear more jewelry if her watch and ring were split up) </p>