Brooches make a fashion statement

KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS
If ever there was a time to raid your grandmother's jewelry box or follow the signs to the estate sales, it's now.
What are you looking for? Brooches.
The jeweled pins, all the better if they are antique, are having a great run again in light of fashion's passion for old and new. In an odd mix of metaphors, designer Rebecca Taylor put them serendipitously on silks and tweeds in her fall runway show. Vogue advises wearing two at a time, as Prada designer Miuccia Prada does. And put them in unexpected places such as the waistband of plaid trousers, in the center of a low decollete or into the loops of denim jeans.
Some of the most stylish are bugs, serpents or animals. And, Vogue adds, the trick is to look a bit edgy and not like the queen of England. Of course, the brooch was former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's signature, and it worked for her.