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| Taxco silver brooch |
Do you change your jewelry around for the seasons? Just as when Fall came around and I switched my main jewelry box around for
autumn leaves, I'm now switching things around for Spring. Part of the fun of this is looking through the jewelry box!
There must have been millions of circle pins made. I still see them for cheap in the Goodwill.
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| Coro Flower Brooch |
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| Har brooch |
The above brooch is so top heavy it has to put on a coat to hold it up without flopping.
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| Hawaiian jewelry |
I had a great aunt who lived in Hawaii in the 60's and 70's so I inherited some of the jewelry she had given my mother. I think a lot of it is outlawed these days -- we don't need to strip the coral reefs to adorn ourselves with it.
Despite showing all these brooches, I don't wear them a great deal. What I
really wear in the spring and summer is bracelets.
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| Miscellaneous Bracelets of rhinestone, bead, mosaic, and chain |
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| Scarab Bracelets |
The one bracelet I wear the most is my scarab one. I have two but I wear the left one more. Any time I'm going out and grab a piece of jewelry (because going out without something would be like going naked, wouldn't it?) I grab the scarab bracelet. It's lost some of its gold but I still like it -- it goes with everything. I believe these are from the time of
Cleopatra with Elizabeth Taylor -- Egyptian style jewelry became quite fashionable...again.
I've mentioned before how I used to pick all this stuff up cheap in thrift stores back in the 80's. The rest of it I inherited. I spent a few minutes one day looking at vintage jewelry on
Etsy that was selling at a reasonable price. No, I didn't buy any!
5 comments:
There is always a TON of vintage costume jewelry at the Chelsea Flea Market. Some of it is cheap and some of it is costly but what always gets me is the sheer QUANTITY of it all!
I think women used to wear more jewelry back in the day, esp. the kind of thing that made a "statement."
Wow! Good pieces from the 60's and before are hard to find around here these days. I agree; I think women used to wear more jewelry.
I would love to have a summer and winter jewelry wardrobe. That seems very luxurious. But alas, the same pieces make the rounds all year long....
You can wear a heavier brooch on your dress or blouse if you pin it through your bra strap for support.
I love that scarab bracelet!
I agree that women don't wear as much jewelry as they used to. I don't wear nearly as much jewelry as my mother did, but I also feel like I just don't have much jewelry. I know that isn't the case, since I used to teach jewelry making, but for some reason it never quite makes it to the dressing table.
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