Vintage Brooch: decoration with a history of

 Along with clasps and buckles brooch is considered one of the oldest types of jewelry on the ground. In historical museums are stored antique brooches, whose age thousands of years. However, these richly inlaid with precious stones more samples are rare decoration. But in daily life brooches introduced in the seventeenth century some noble Parisian Madame de Sevigne. With her light hand the French took over the fashion to decorate clothing elegant bagatelles on fasteners, made of precious metals as well as from alloy jewelry. Gradually brooches spread throughout Europe, and then - and around the world.

However, each country experienced its fashionable boom associated with this decoration. For example, in the US real heyday for brooches steel 60 - 80 years of the twentieth century. Jewelry company specializing in the production of various kinds of fashion jewelry. For example, the company JJ and AJC famous humorous approach to business. Their brooch depicts what a coyote on the car, the cat in the washing machine, then wandering in the Noah's Ark animal. Famous Brand Triffary, which is on the market jewelery was respected as Tiffany - in jewelery, brooches-produced luxury flowers. A family-owned company has established production Kirks Folly fancy brooches, fairies, richly decorated with sequins and tiny bells.

Today vintage brooch from North America and Canada are among connoisseurs in Russia in great demand. Most of them are available for sale at flea markets, online auctions and shops vintage. But for some collector's item, such as a brooch, iris from Kirks Folly or pea brooch with pearls from Triffary, buyers have to hunt.

More accessible to our compatriots are unsold in the mother's caskets Czechoslovak sparkling brooches and Baltic amber jewelery. The advantage of these vintage things that their history can tell you the former owner of the - my grandmother or mother. Russian brooch sample 80s, mostly in the form of cute animals or cartoon characters, too, find their grateful connoisseurs as the best suited to the style of grunge clothing and much more.

Modern fashion is valuable because it does not remain in the narrow confines of convention. If a couple of decades ago, brooches owner knew only two ways to wear - under the throat or on the collar, but today these methods much more. The brooch can decorate not only clothes, but also headdress, scarf, purse or belt.