I'm back to showing you my brooch collection. I love this pin I found at Value Village a few years ago for a couple bucks. It has an Art Deco look to it (but guessing it's 1940s? thoughts?), and the electric yellow glass stone is just so fab, isn't it?
It's so special that I wear it rarely. But when I do I make sure it packs a style wallop: I wear it with this teal pashmina scarf and thrifted yellow Bill Blass swing coat. If you want to make a pin pop, pair it with a contrasting colour. Mmm, with a huge snow storm brewing, maybe I'll don this ensemble today to brighten up the dreary day!
A spectacular broach. Love it with the blue & yellow.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I love it too though it is oft not used!
ReplyDeletebroaches are fun and usually the best ideas - i love your green crystal pot of gold rainbow thingy Kelly, but unfortunately the trend now is no jewelry - almost none and so broaches come off as pretentious at worst and superfluous at best. I tried to sell a vintage coro broach on eBay once and it was a bitter failure - two veterans wrote me and told me later that the same design is a necklace and earrings are quite popular.
ReplyDeleteWell Rob, sounds like you were selling the wrong brooch. If it were a CoroCraft, or a jelly belly Trifari, you may have been able to get some decent cash for it. And you won't ever convince this costume jewellery junkie that jewellery is somehow an unworthy style statement (I don't buy to sell, after all, only to wear and admire) - shame on you for thinking the Grunge Queen would ever care about the what unimaginative trend-seekers(who, perhaps lacking style themselves, deem other peoples' style choices 'pretentious') have to say about what's fashionable and what's not!
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