How to Make Your Outfits Come Alive With Brooches & Pins
People are using brooches and pins to dazzle up their outfits. That includes men, who are beginning to pin a brooch or two to the lapel of a suit or onto a casual jacket. There are so many designs making it easy to express your true self. And if you experiment a little, you’ll find that age doesn’t matter.
According to Who What Wear, “this once-dated jewelry item is now a major 2024 trend.” So when I came across some photos at the Free People store, I was inspired to start incorporating these jewels into my outfits. I found lots of ways that brooches and pins can make your outfits come alive. Why don’t you take a look at how you can do this, too?
How to Style Brooches & Pins
Here are a few tips to get you started, followed by where to pin them on and ending with a few ways to wear them in your outfits.
Style Tips:
Tip #1: Clasp a brooch or two to a necklace.
Tip #2: Choose a statement brooch. Add an everyday brooch. Fill in any open space with mini sizes.
Tip #3: Besides raiding your aunt’s attic or your buried stash, look to secondhand and vintage sources like The RealReal. They are overflowing with designer pins for less.
Where to Place Your Brooches & Pins
How to Wear Them for Business
- Pin a gold metal brooch high on the collar of a turtleneck or cowl-neck sweater.
- Pin a wonderful gold or combination gold & tiger’s eye brooch on the lapel of a jacket or coat.
Green Gardens Brooch from Free People (horseshoe shape) mixed with half a dozen other pins - Pin a brooch to a menswear look.
Wear Them on Coats & Jackets
- Wear a brooch on your overcoat.
- Add brooches to the lapel, upper and lower, on a navy pea coat.
Blue Jean Dreams Brooch (Maltese Cross shape) from Free People clustered with multiple brooches and pins on both lapels, upper and lower - You might even like to pile brooches on both lapels of your blazer.
- A cluster of oversized brooches add oomph to classic blazers.
Hotty Totty Brooch from Free People (moon and star) clustered with other brooches and mini pins on a canvas jacket
- Add a colorful pin to a bomber jacket or an army jacket.
- Choose one or more brooches to dress up a denim jacket or your favorite sweater.
- Add a rhinestone brooch or a colorful pin to the pocket flap of a denim jacket.
Wear Them on Hats
- Apply pins and brooches, small and large, to a cap.
- Add some to a knit hat.
- Add one or more brooches to your beret.
Wear Them With Scarves of All Sorts
- Pin a brooch to the knot of a bandanna tied at the neck, or use one to hold a scarf together.
- Secure a shawl.
Brooches & Pins on Accessories
- You can even attach a big safety-pin style brooch to your sneakers!
- Use one as a belt buckle on a ribbon or scarf tied around your waist.
- Pin one on your bag.
- Add a little bling by attaching a brooch to a wide headband.
More Places to Pin Them On
- Pin a large brooch or two to any sweater.
- Add three glorious and showy vintage pins to a plain cardigan.
- Arrange one or more brooches along a pocket on your jeans.
- Wear a brooch at the neck of a cloak with the hood up and over.
Accessorize Your Outfits With Brooches and Pins
- Add a brooch or two to a black sweater and blue jeans.
- Pair a black crew-neck top with a gray skirt and black stockings. Add a crystal or pearl brooch.
- Add a brooch to a black cardigan over a black scoop-neck top and blue jeans.
- Add a brooch to a fur-collar cardigan over a satin tank top & blue jeans.
- Dress up a t-shirt and jeans with a few brooches.
- Pin a brooch to a hoodie worn with a faux leather skirt.
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Angie
I tried doing this years ago (talk about being ahead of a trend), and I just felt silly. I think I’ll give it a shot once again! Thanks for the inspiration, Angie!
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That reminds me of when I mixed prints in my outfit decades ago and another woman looked at me as if I was insane. Lol! Then it became a whole new art form that persists to this day. I think that’s how it is with brooches. It could be fun to go to a thrift or vintage shop to find some beautiful vintage brooches. And there are some cute pins, too. I have a rainbow pin that makes drab neutrals look fun! Sparkly brooches will be a new (yet old) way to add bling for the holidays. Enjoy!