Sepia Saturday 181: 15 June 2013 - May I broach ...?
Today's Sepia Saturday subject is bodily adornment. This first photo is of my maternal grandmother Kit Forfar. She is wearing pearls, pearl earrings, a gondola brooch and a rather fetching pair of adorned glasses. I'm guessing this photo was taken circa 1950s - Kit died April 1958. I still have the gondola brooch. Look here it is in my collection... Brooches have been much discussed at work this week as one of our colleagues (who has a very fine collection) has been sporting them on her lapel daily. If you look up the meaning of brooch in my husband's delapidated dictionary from school days (Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English - Fourth Edition 1951) it says: n. ornamental, jewelled. etc., safety-pin for fastening some part of female dress, esp. the neck. [ME broche = BROACH] and of course broach (or the first meaning of broach in same dictionary) means: n. Roasting-spit; church spire rising from t...