Atlanta - April 25, 2007

Brace Yourself

Tivi’s Ecofriendly Cuffs

Boy shorts and menswear? These days, there’s nothing more ladylike.

Keep up appearances with another gender-bending coup: Tivi’s new line of unisex cuffs.

The tough-but-pretty bracelets are handcrafted using recycled materials like steel, aluminum, resin, and exotic woods. Styles are named after numbers or cities. Nos. 1 through 8 are made of metal and wood and look as good on a Terry as a Terri. The steely No. 4.5 could cause your own mini industrial revolution; No. 6 works as a beachy bauble.

If you like your jewelry with a little more pizzaz, try the glitzy Rio, translucent Buenos Aires, or Matrix-esque NYC. Each is dipped in natural preservatives and sized small, medium, large — and not according to gender.

So you might have to rethink your own style persuasions.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Available at Beehive Co-Op, 1831a Peachtree Road, Buckhead (404-351-1166 or beehiveco-op.com); online at tiviwear.com.