Refresh Your Wardrobe with Brooches
Are you getting tired of your wardrobe, but really don’t want to buy new clothes? Are you tired of your ordinary, plain pair of black heels? Do you have too many handbags, but want something new and different? Vintage brooches may be the answer you are looking for. Vintage brooches help spice up any outfit, and give your style a unique flair. There are so many great ways to wear brooches.
Brooches on a Top
Brooches can be worn the way we all know best, on the front of your favorite sweater, blouse, or on a lapel. A brooch can add just the right amount of sparkle to make the ordinary wow! Pairing a brooch with a complimentary color top works best. Think of an orange top with a blue brooch or a black top with a sliver one. Some other ways a brooch could be worn on a top are to use a brooch to fasten a top instead of buttons, if a top is too big it can be used to make the top fit better and give it a little flair or to even accentuate your bust.
Brooches on the Head
Brooches are a great hair accessories. You can attach one to a hair ban or clip. You can also attach a brooch to whatever you use to hold together a bun or ponytail. A brooch can also just be tucked into the hair, but do be careful not to get stuck with a pin. The best brooches for hair are the ones that glitter and sparkle. Another way to add a brooch to your head is add it to a hat.
Brooches on the Shoes
Have a pair of shoes that need some dressing up? Brooches are even great for that too. Adding a pair of matching brooches to a pair of shoes gives new life to a pair of kicks that otherwise would be left in the closet. Brooches can be attached to the toe of a shoe or even the heel.
Brooches on the Purse
Do you want a new handbag, but really don’t need one? Yet again brooches are the best way to update your handbag. Just adding a little something gives you a new bag, without breaking the bank. A brooch and be added to anywhere on a handbag too. A quick way to add a brooch to a bag without actually adding it to a bag is to add a piece of ribbon to a handle by tying it into a bow. Then placing a brooch to the bow.
Brooches, Brooches Anywhere!
In summary, one can clasp a brooch to just about anything! Can even be used in home decor, such as curtain tie-backs. The use of brooches is only limited by your imagination.
How creative you are to think of all these places to add a brooch, love it! That pin looks so cute on the boots–never would have thought of placing one there. I have a ton of brooches, so I’ll need to get them out and use your suggestions. Very clever!
I also love the one on the boots! Completely changes the look!
I honestly never knew what a Brooch was until checking out this post! I think I would most like using it for a solid color blazer or work jacket. Super cute and adds more to a simple blazer or work jacket. I really like how the one looks on the solid color white jacket in the post above.
Some folks call a brooch a pin; either way, fun to create a little different look.
You are so creative! I never would have thought to put a brooch on my handbag or shoes. I do use them on jackets sweaters and scarves. Thanks for some additional ideas!
You are most welcome. It is fun to create different looks.
I never thought of a brooch on a purse, could just bling it up a little, love it. I have some from my Mum and Nan and bought some a few years back when I was going through my Cat phase, might just rejuvenate my look the next time I get out 🙂
It is fun to create a little different look. Rejuvenate away and have fun!
This gives me so many ideas! I inherited a lot of my grandmother’s jewelry, and she had quite a collection of brooches. They have just been sitting in a jewelry box since I didn’t really know what to do with them. Thanks!
What fun! Would be like Christmas for me! Have fun and brooch up!
Brooch on the shoes! It is new to me and will love to do that soon. Thanks for these tips.
You are most welcome, and hope you have fun with brooches!
How very creative, I always think of brooches to be worn in the same place, never thought to wear one on jeans.
Thanks for the kind words! Sometimes fun to create just a little different look.
This looks great. This is a test of creativity on how to sport a brooch. I remember my wedding planner put a brooch on my wedding bouquet. It was beautiful.
Thanks! Yes, I have seen entire bouquets made of brooches! Really special when they are family brooches.
It’s interesting that you post this now because I was just wandering through Macy’s the other day in the jewelry department and thinking that I used to wear brooches all the time, but not so much anymore. And now, thanks to your post, I can wear the ones I have in new ways! Now, I need to finds ways to wear my great-aunt’s hat pin without impaling myself!
Hat pins are awesome! Great to be able to work with the old, and not have too buy the new!
Absolute fun and delightful as well. I have done this for years, until the broaches break, (usually pin mechanism). Good for me, my hubby is aware of how to solder and fix my jewelry.
I am grateful for your posting and happy to share same. For many this is a new idea. This is what makes this so awesome!
Thanks, and how awesome that your hubby can solder! He is a keeper!
Cool! I have a couple of neat vintage brooches. I think I need to dig them out and start thinking of some new ways to wear them. Thanks for getting my creative juices flowing.
You are most welcome! Have fun being creative!
As a guy, i must i am totally impressed by the way you think 🙂 Well done!
Cool tios with putting brooches on your purse. Had not thought of that. ☺