I love jewelry shaped like flowers, Fashionable Reader. Here is a retrospective of this style through history in terms of my books, because well, that's my perspective on things.
Finishing School
For Felix...
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| Pocket Watch 1800 Sotheby’s2 |
For Monique...
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| Diadem and Brooch 1850 Christie’s |
For Dimity...
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| Earring set ca. 1850 via The Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Necklace and Earring set ca. 1850 via The Victoria & Albert Museum |
Parasol Protectorate
For Alexia...
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| 1870s Sotheby’s |
Custard Protocol
For Rue...
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| 1890 Christie’s |
For Prim...
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| Tiffany & Co., 1890s Bonham’s |
For Baroness Tunstell...
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| 1890s 1stdibs.com |
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| 1900s The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Marcus & Co., 1900 Sotheby’s |
For the BFF...
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| Henri Terterger, 1900 Tadema Gallery |
For the Mum...
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| Digitale René Boivin, 1947 Sotheby’s |
For the Gail...
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| 1955 Sotheby’s |
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| Earrings and Brooch Van Cleef & Arpels, 1958 Bonham’s |
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| Cartier brooch ca. 1959 via Christie’s |
Just because...
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| Shoes Roger Vivier, 1966 The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Flower braid via Beauty Addicts on Facebook |
"Large showy ornaments, by way of jewellery, are exceedingly ungenteel. They always tell their own story, of glass stones set in gilding, not gold. If you cannot obtain real jewels, never attempt sham ones. It requires no practised eye to detect them—particularly false diamonds."
~ The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book
by Eliza Leslie (1864)
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I'm sorry, but what you picked out for Dimity would look MUCH better on me!
ReplyDeleteAmazing the hat is not a total mess. The baroness has matured and grown in her Fashion sense. Or hat was a gift. The braid is amazing. Reminds me of Empress Sisi.
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