Monday, March 15, 2021

Vintage Brooches

 

From Gracie Opulanza:

An example of how to use vintage pins in a modern way. Create a wedding bouquet out of a collection. There’s a subset of folks in the vintage dressing and collecting niche who wear and collect vintage brooches. Some are pure collectors, some like to wear their purchases and some like to do other fun stuff with their finds, like make vintage brooch bouquets out them (see above).

Nowadays, although women still wear brooches and designers still design them, the heyday for brooches in the fashion world existed from about the 1920s to the 1970s.

There has been some recent renewed interest in brooch wearing in the last decade or so (think Gossip Girl) and there’s plenty of vintage-esque designs on the market at shops like Anthropologie and real vintage brooches at Etsy, the online marketplace for handmade and vintage goods if you are looking to add some to your own jewellery box.

But first, it’s probably a good idea to have a little knowledge before you get started. So, who were the big costume jewellery vintage brooch designers of the past and what were their most popular designs? (Read more.)


More on antique jewelry, HERE and HERE.

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