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    Learn More About Brooches, Pins & Clips

    Brooches, pins, and clips are pieces of jewelry that share a common purpose—adding decorative detail to your outfits by attaching them to clothes. The differences between brooches, pins, and clips are mostly traditional or refer to their former functions. Take a gander at some of the different ways brooches, pins, and clips are used:


    • Clothing and shoes clips have a bit of a different original function as well, holding jackets, sweaters, and dresses closed, like what buttons or toggles do now. Shoe clips add pizzazz to your favorite shoes from sneakers to dress shoes.
    • Brooches traditionally held together items of clothing like kilts, capes, cloaks, skirts, dresses, and jackets. Now, they’re used as intricate accessories bringing an extra layer of fancy to your ensemble.
    • Pins and badges evolved from the brooch and serve as a way to customize your clothing and bags, like jean jackets for rock shows, backpacks, or hats. Etsy designers have tons of premade pins and badges in cool, funny, and unique designs, and some will customize a pin just for you to wear proudly.

    The best thing about wearing brooches, pins, and clips, is that the rules are practically nonexistent. Adding a brooch, a pin, or a clip to your ensemble embraces a freeform mode of self-expression.


    Brooches, pins, and clips can replace buttons on a favorite jacket, or cleverly cover small imperfections on a well-loved garment. Show off your love of astrology with your zodiac symbol pinned on your jacket lapel, or reimagine cameo brooch fashion with one fastened to your hat.