Re: Wedding Trousseau
100% agree with the clothing/fabric part. Even with gold…the mindset is changing. I rarely wear the gold sets I was given b/c they’re old-fashioned; my SIL is the same. When going to desi events, I have more modern fake sets that match with my outfits.
I’m in my mid-30’s and I know plenty of people my age who don’t consider gold an “investment”. They would rather set up a college or life insurance fund for their children. We have several friends whose parents gave them large sums of cash to use as downpayment for their house. And I know several women who wished their parents would have paid off their graduate school debt (100K+ debt for medical school or debt for law school/MBA etc.) instead of spending thousands of dollars on buying gold sets they rarely wear.