Brooch, you will not take!

The brooch is an accessory which is attached on clothes and is used as ornament, or performs function of a fastener. Usually the brooch is carried to jewelry and made of gold, silver, decorated with gemstones or inserts from enamel. But recently gain distribution and brooches not only from metal, but also from other materials, for example, from felt, fabric, plastic, etc.



History of brooches traces the roots back to a bronze age. As soon as the person put on himself the first clothes, he needed something that allowed it to fasten it on itself. Here that the brooch was also invented! The first brooches were made of thorns of prickly plants and bones of animals. As soon as metal obeyed mankind, the brooch was right there made of it!

Archeologists idolize resistant fashion for this accessory. The matter is that the design of the brooch found in archeological excavations can great help with dating of all find, i.e. to serve as a peculiar chronological indicator. Creation of a brooch in that look what it we got used to see, attribute madam de Sevinie in the 17th century.



It should be noted that brooches appeared in disgrace at women of fashion from 50th years of the last century. The first in the 21st century the fashion house of Chanel tried to reanimate fashion for brooches, having attached the models during one of displays this accessory directly on skirts. Since then brooches in the collections are used practically by all leading fashion designers.





Also many famous people of the present are not indifferent to fashion for brooches: stars of cinema, show business, and for most of female politicians the brooch serves as the business card at all.











Today with confidence it is possible to establish the fact that brooches returned, but ways of their carrying cardinally changed. If earlier the big brooch could be carried on a collar, and small – at the left is 10 cm lower than a shoulder, then now appropriate to carry a brooch anywhere: on a winter cap, you take, on a scarf, a nasheyny scarf, on a bag, on a collar of a coat, jacket, on a dress, a jacket lapel, on a sweater, an undershirt, even trousers or a skirt.







Where to carry brooches understood, a question now what brooches are relevant. Women of fashion prefer both flower subject performed by brooches, and animal: bees, dragonflies, predators, reptiles and so on and so forth.




It is necessary to pay attention to that fact that its conquest not only business clothes became a great achievement of a modern brooch, but also the fact that the brooch was chosen by the most inveterate party-goers and women of fashion far from desire to be elegant. They prefer to classical brooches easy and playful, ironic accessories with abstract forms which are capable to emphasize identity, to help to be expressed and be allocated with society.




What brooches to carry more or less clearly. Now it is important to understand how it is correct to do it not to do much harm to image and an image. First, it is necessary to remember that thin ladies will suit any form of a brooch, and fat – it is better to stop the choice on this accessory with roundish and smooth lines. Secondly, your taste will emphasize and the choice of a form of a brooch is a match for a form of a bag and shoes. Here everything is simple: or we choose all listed accessories the rounded form, or with sharp ledges. Thirdly, we remember that brooches from fabric are very strongly capable to draw attention to themselves. Therefore they should be attached closer to those parts of a body which you want to emphasize. The brooch on a neck draws attention to the face of her owner, and on a shoulder – draws the attention of people around to her decollete.

Choosing a brooch, it is necessary to check whether stones (if those on it are available), durability fastening of a pin fastener and its serviceability are well fixed in it.


Here so such small simple accessory as a brooch, is capable to give to exclusivity and completeness to an image of the modern woman. Brooches the mood and, certainly, only can set positive. Having even dreamed, to hurry to predict a brooch to the young woman emergence in her life the rich and loving husband capable to become the worthy father to her children.