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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:

Vintage Sterling Silver Onyx and Mother of Pearl Cameo Brooch and Pendant Necklace With Marcasite Stones by ArtDecoDame at Etsy

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

Pins And Tokens Brooch Pack from Free People

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

Bird Brooch Jewelry by IncredibleJewelryArt at Etsy
  • Add a colorful pin to a bomber jacket or an army jacket.
Milkyway Brooch from Free People (star brooch) in a cluster
  • 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

Mini pin from Pins And Token Brooch Pack at Free People with two larger brooches
  • 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

Rosie Brooch from Free People on a bandanna with a sweater and leather jacket
  • 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

Chain Shoe Pin from Free People
  • 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

From Erdem Fall 2024 Ready-to-Wear at Vogue
  • 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

Gorgeous Flower Inspired Diamond Brooch by ReminiscenceJewel at Etsy
  1. Add a brooch or two to a black sweater and blue jeans.
  2. Pair a black crew-neck top with a gray skirt and black stockings. Add a crystal or pearl brooch.
  3. Add a brooch to a black cardigan over a black scoop-neck top and blue jeans.
  4. Add a brooch to a fur-collar cardigan over a satin tank top & blue jeans.
  5. Dress up a t-shirt and jeans with a few brooches.
  6. Pin a brooch to a hoodie worn with a faux leather skirt.
Sasylvia 16 Pcs Women Brooch Set from Amazon

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2 Comments

    • 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!

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