dress clip
A piece of jewelry which is like a brooch but with a hinged, usually triangular, clasp on the back. Popular in the 1920s-1930s, they were worn at the neckline.
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Dress Clip: A brooch that uses a hinged clip or two-pronged pin to fasten the article to clothing. They were popular during the 1930s and 1940s and often made in pairs.
Dress Clip - a clip which uses one wide clip to attach to articles of clothing. See also Fur clip.
Duette - a combination pin on one pin back, made famous by Coro, and registered by them, but now commonly used by others.
Dress Clip
A brooch that fastens to clothing using a hinged clip or two-pronged pin
Dress Set
A matching gentleman's set of jewellery items. The items usually comprise cufflinks, shirt studs, and/or buttons ...
Dress Clip: An article of jewelry that uses a hinge or prongs to fasten to clothing. This style of brooch was popular in the 30s and the 40s.
Art Deco dress clip style brooches were designed in pairs. According to Christie Romero, in Warman's Jewelry, Louis Cartier was inspired to create the design as the result of watching a woman hang clothes out to dry with clothes pins.
Clip: A dress clip is like a brooch, except instead of having a pin stem on the back, it has a folding clip that enables it to be worn or used in a variety of ways.
The dress clip, the most popular 1930s jewel, was exceedingly versatile and fit perfectly into the thrifty woman's wardrobe. In 1931, Parisian jeweler, Gaston Candas, invented a mechanism that trebled the dress clip's versatility.
They supplied the Eisenberg company with its early buttons, brooches, and dress clips. The tradename "Ora" was not adopted until the late 40s. Early pieces are unsigned. Mr. Agnini retired in 1953 and Ralph Singer bought his half of the company.
This company produced brooches, necklaces, bracelets, dress clips, earrings, tiaras, hair clips, etc., often featuring colorful rhinestones in gold-plated pot metal.
Some sets had one stunning ornament perhaps a grand necklace or a tiara - which could he taken apart with a tiny screwdriver to form, for example, two dress clips, a brooch, earrings and a single brilliant stone that, added to a shank, made a ring.
[Antique and vintage plastic simulants: circa 1870's vulcanite brooch (jet), 1890's celluloid brooch (ivory), 1940's plastic "moonstone" dress clip]
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The Nemo mark was first used in January, 1913; the marks L/N and L/N25 "Nemo Gold Seal Quality" also belonged to this company (L/N perhaps standing for "Little Nemo"). This company produced brooches, necklaces, bracelets, dress clips, earrings, ...
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