Get out the Ring Hunting Sniffer Dogs Guys, this is important: If you’re about to propose to your girlfriend , you’d better not show up with a lame ring. Offering an oval stone set in yellow gold to a woman who prefers princess cuts and platinum – well, that’s like buying your buddy L.A. Lakers season tickets when he lives in Brooklyn. You don’t want to look like a chump. So it’s time for you to get all Sherlock Holmes and figure out what this woman wants. Engagement ring ideas need to be investigated Start Sleuthing Before you ask her friends and family for advice, take a look at your girlfriend’s wardrobe (meaning, just be observant; you don’t really need to go rifling through her closet). If you have never, ever seen your girlfriend in a dress or a skirt, and she rarely wears jewelry, odds are she doesn’t want a big, fat diamond on her finger. But if she’s got shoes and purses in every color of the rainbow and a spar...