Women’s fashions, along with the attitudes of a whole generation, changed during the First World War and that momentum continued into Second

Festoon necklaces are one of my favourites and can look frightfully grand or delicate and romantic. Their basic form is loops and swags in

Ever been told pearls are for old ladies? Yup, me too.

So, just to be clear: I'm not great with hair. Never have been and I'll be astounded if I ever will be. So I was not a little daunted to realise that a basic...

If we are talking about market leaders in 20th century costume jewellery then Coro would have to be at the head of the queue. In much the same way that the b...

Do you have a piece of personalised jewellery? An engraved watch, a name chain or even your old school uniform with your name tag that went to the charity sh...

Thanks to Leo DiCaprio and the reboot of the Great Gatsby, these days its all about the flapper. Of course, there was far more to the 1920s than that, but th...

I remember going clothes shopping when I was 15 or 16 and feeling ridiculous. Most teenagers feel ridiculous, out of place, lost and confused at some point (...

It may be the historian in me but I love a bit of detective work and finding out cool things. I also love a gadget, you know when a mechanism is so clever an...

The main problem with buying and selling Miriam Haskell jewellery is that before 1950, very few pieces were signed. It can take a lot of research to correctl...

Trifari jewellery was how I started collecting when I was in my teens some *coughcough* years ago. As a company name it is still used today on jewellery mass...