Tag Archives: Vintage brooches

How to wear vintage jewelry: brooches, pins and clips (part IV)

Here is a selection of some alternative ways to wear a brooch on cocktail dresses and frog gowns. You can accentuate your body parts, you can hide a zipper or tighten a dress or just stand out from the crowd.

Set of 1940s snowflake brooches

VAC advertentie voor snowflake clips 1946

Van Cleef & Arpels advertisement for snowflake brooches (1946)

Trifari in Vogue 1950

Nice example of how to wear a set of vintage brooches, one little bigger than the other, like the snowflakes

set of 18K gold and diamond snowflake brooches

set of 18K gold and diamond snowflake brooches

How to wear vintage jewelry like these snowflake brooches? In the 1940s brooches were worn together as a set. In a Paris auction, I bought this lovely set of 2 small snowflake brooches. One is a little bigger than the other. Snowflakes were extremely popular after the war. Van Cleef & Arpels introduced them in 1946. Here you can see 2 advertisements of how to wear them: The lady with the snowflake brooches on her hat is from VCA and the other lady with a set of diamond clovers are from the House of Trifari.

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