Jewelry Blog by 1928

For over 40 years, 1928 Jewelry, has created stunning reproductions of vintage costume jewelry. Some of our designs are born from the creative minds or our design team but many collections have been inspired from ornate, sometimes over the top costume jewelry pieces created in the mid-2oth century.

When researching a piece I found at the Fairfax Flea Market this past weekend, I stumbled upon Sherri Duncan‘s website.

I’d never heard of Ms. Duncan before a serious, in-depth Google search. But thanks to good old Google – low and behold, she was there! The costume jewelry expert of my dreams! This woman had serious taste in costume jewelry, from Hobe to Dior, Miriam Haskell to Chanel, she had it! It was honestly the Haskell piece that made me love her.

Duncan has written an amazing coffee table book about her costume jewelry collection called Jewels of Passion. The hardcover, glossy page book features 175 pages of beautiful vintage to antique costume jewelry collections. For anyone who loves costume, or just loves jewelry in general, it’s a must own. And yes, you can get it through Amazon, what iconic fashion book isn’t?

To learn more about Sherri, you can visit her jewelry site, she even has a few of the pieces for sale!

Tagged: chanel, christian dior, Costume, fashion, hobe, jewelry, marketing, miriam haskell, sales, sherri duncan, Vintage

So we’ve been creating some amazing things around here: We wanted to give you a preview and here your thoughts:

1. Do you or don’t you like it?

2. How would you wear it?

3. What would you pay?

Ready? set? SHARE!

This bracelet is really cool. It’s has ivory white enameled flowers with crystal centers. The polished gold tone bracelet is more of a cuff style, opening and closing on a hinge. It’s about 1.5″ wide.

Gold Costume Bracelet

This beauty has me quivering in my boots! The necklace is very modern with an industrial, slight gothic vibe. I love the mixed metals – the antiqued gold and black. Very similar to chain mail no? The collar is about 2 5/8″ wide.

Costume Chainmail Necklace

Tagged: bracelets, Costume, costume jewelry, new products, statement necklaces, vintage jewelry

A large number of ladies ordering the 1960′s Inspired Pen Necklace from 1928 Jewelry have been commenting that they are going as Joan for Halloween. This leads me to wonder, “Who are these fabulous fashionistas?” And, “How can I get them to send me their pictures?”

Hello, contest time anyone?

In honor of all you 60′s stylin’ retro ladies, we are giving away one of our highly desired pen necklaces, this one accented with lovely violet crystals!

That’s right ladies, for those of you brave souls who will be wearing your Aquanet sprayed red haired wigs, bullet bras and cat eye makeup… Get a picture to us by midnight 11/14/08 and on November 19th we will announce our winner! (Who will be judged by me, my boss and some random guy down the hall.) Entries will be judged on creativity and interpretation, so even if you’re not a dead ringer for J.H., send in your pics, you just might win!

How to enter:

Send us a photo of you as Joan Holloway to: jenb.1928@gmail.com

Hope you are the best of the bombshells!

Tagged: Contest, Costume, Halloween, joan holloway, mad men, pen necklace