Blog — 1830s
About those 1830s Earrings...
Posted by Taylor Shelby on
Oh the 1830s! Such excess! Such silliness! Big hair and even bigger sleeves! And oh yes...big jewelry to match. Quite some time ago I received some vintage teardrops in the mail and they ended up being *much* bigger than I realized. I tucked them away in a drawer thinking I'd never use them and then while doing some research on 1830s jewelry I came across this image: Miss Major by John Wood Dodge, 1835. Cincinnati Museum of Art. There are many examples of large-scale earrings in the 1830s, but these in particular had a resemblance to the pieces I had...
Jewelry for my 1839 Dress
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