Vintage Brooches & My Style Inspiration

Nancy Valentino — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:43:31 +0000

My fashion statement piece at the moment are: Vintage Brooches

I am a big fan of brooches. It’s a good way to add a little personalization to your look. I usually have the brooch (pictured below-crappy cell phone pic!) on my pea coat and I feel that it adds a certain something. I have constantly gotten comments on this brooch.

Recently I purchased this beautiful cameo. Being a lover of vintage, I feel that it gives my look a hint of the past while wearing a modern outfit.

This brooch (pictured below) is the one that I am the most excited to play around with. It’s inspired by Little Edie Beale.

After watching Grey Gardens & learning more about Little Edie Beale, I became inspired by her fashion. Little Edie and her mother, Big Edie were not the most normal people in the world (in fact they were very reclusive). They were free spirits and that’s what I absolutely LOVED about them. Little Edie had a VERY unique fashion sense and she was not afraid to take risks. She was strikingly beautiful in her younger years.

During the taping of Grey Gardens

A much younger Edie Beale

Some people may have thought Edie’s style was “out there” but it was distinctive, isn’t that was fashion is all about?? What she is best known for are her signature head scarves. She used everything from shirts, sweaters, table clothes, towels and she always had an oversized brooch pinned on the scarf. Little Edie seemed to maintain a level of glamour at her dilapidated Grey Gardens home.

I thought her brooch was exquisite and really inspired me to get more into brooches. I purchased this brooch (below) because it reminded me of Edie.

Inspiration Equals Fashion.

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Vintage Brooches & My Style Inspiration