June 15, 2008
Vintage Find - Beautiful Mourning - Victorian Drop Earrings
You know you are a style icon when people will wear black because your husband died. After the death of Prince Albert in 1861, Queen Victoria decreed a 40 year mourning period which resulted in a great demand for fashionable and affordable black jewelry.
These Victorian era earrings are a perfect example of finding beauty in everything -- even in the morbid.
And with the resurrection of the "steam punk" movement, my normally mid century taste has been piqued by the prim and proper Victorians. When Ukrainian Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, looks so sharp in neo-Victorian, I'm intrigued.
earrings available at Amber's Attic
$375
Posted by Sandra at June 15, 2008 10:14 PM
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