Collecting Brooches and What to Do with Them

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by Kremb de la Kremb

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Chances are you already have some brooches in your jewellery box. Perhaps they’ve been passed down from your mom, aunts, or grandmother. You may have received these jewellery baubles for past birthdays or Christmases. Maybe you even have some pins from the 80s or 90s. It doesn’t really matter how many you have, where they’re from, or how old they are. What does matter is it’s time to pull them out and start wearing them. Wear one brooch or wear all of them at once, but this fall and into winter it’s time to start accessorizing with your brooches. Here I show you how just one looks to all of them. Oh, and don’t forget to use really cool looking earrings as brooches too!

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Find Brooches

  • In your own jewellery box, your mother’s, aunts’, or grandmothers’
  • Second-hand, charity, vintage, and craft shops
  • On your travels
  • In other items like earrings or necklace pendants that could work as a brooch

    • Add Brooches

  • To your outerwear–jean jackets, blazers, winter coats
  • To your hats and scarves even to the cuff of a pair of winter gloves
  • To the side of your waist, blouse closure, or back pocket
  • To the tongue of your shoes, cuff of your pant leg, or handbag

    Do you have a brooch collection? How do you wear your brooches?

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    7 thoughts on “Collecting Brooches and What to Do with Them”

    1. I’ve totally been loving this trend.
      And do you know I wrote an article for Sixty + Me about it—I figured all the older ladies would love bringing them back? And there were so many who hate them. Isn’t that crazy?
      One lady said it reminded her of her aunt who was awful!! It made me laugh!!
      jodie
      http://www.jtouchofstyle.com

      2. How many do you wear at once Jodie? I actually wish I would have inherited more jewellery from my grandmothers. I know they both had some great costume jewellery, but being overseas meant I missed out on some of the hand-me-downs. That’s why I always look at the second had shops. Those cases usually have some gems. Also, on a recent trip to Malaysia, I couldn’t decide on just one brooch so I bought about ten or so. Then I brought them home for all my sisters. Whatever was left over was mine–easier to make them all choose since they were all quite pretty! The round pearly one that I started off with is the brooch from those travels.

        Awww, my baubles! They’re like little mini story babies to me!!

        Love, Ann

    2. I love how you built up to a “yahoo! pile
      em on!” fashion adventure. This post is a lot of fun. Something about a jean jacket just screams for a brooch collection to spring up on it.
      I was just thinking how a bunch of vintage, fake diamond, brooches, (all colorless) piled on a jean jacket would be cool. Perhaps we should think of brooches as embroidery with extra texture!!
      How’s Pinky treating you these days Ann? Any new “moves” that you’ve rediscovered??

      1. Oooh, I like that idea: brooches as embroidery with extra texture. Perfect thought Judy!!

        Pinky is treating me well! I’m sore here and there but I can walk! So that’s wonderful!!

        Love, Ann

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