AIBU to consider wearing a brooch? Do you wear brooches? (Title edited by MNHQ at the OP's request.)

And really, over-60s should be ashamed to still be alive. No decent person would ever look to them for style advice …

I'm in my 20s. I often wear them and always have.

There's a fashion trend, which is wearing a brooch somewhere unexpected, like using it to hitch/gather a jumper at the waist. I bought a couple from a charity shop, but haven't yet found the right way to wear them. Using one to fasten a shirt might also work, but the traditional "lapel" wear is still firmly with the older generation.

My 18 year old DD does! But she is an 80 year old in a teen's body. And a real lesson on being comfortable with yourself.

I love them and usually wear them in autumn/ winter. As pp have said, you need some weight to the fabric. I often wear a jacket or coat with lapels and think a brooch on the lapel looks great.
My jackets and coats are often dark colours so a brooch livens them up. Mine are vintage or antique, my favourite is Victorian, a large flat oval piece of malachite encircled with gold. I'm in my sixties so far older than OP but have worn them for at least 35 years.

I have a little blue and gold bumble bee that my late son bought me for Mothers Day when he was about 10

I don't wear it because I'm scared of losing it, I think the last time I wore it was to his funeral

I'm over 60 and nobody I know wears one. Over 80s possibly.

Angela Rippon (look her up) wears them all the time.

That camp Welsh presenter Owain Wyn Evans on Homes Under the Hammer wears them with aplomb.

I’ve got several brooches. Wear them with my winter coats. I feel quite stylish and they do attract attention and often break the ice.

I’m from an army family and married an army officer. I now have two regimental brooches: one of my father’s cap badge and the other of my husband’s. They are both beautiful - delicate and encrusted with enamel and jewels. More than that, they are meaningful. I wear one or other at certain events - civic dinners, Remenbrance events, regimental reunions etc. And I’m proud to do so.

I sell vintage jewellery online and brooches are popular, in part because the size doesn't matter, a lot of vintage clothes for example are on the small side by today's standards but anyone can wear a brooch. If you are looking to buy a brooch or several without spending too much money try eBay, Etsy, charity shops, vintage shops.

Why?

I wear a kilt pin with stones and ceramic flowers on my denim jacket

I like a brooch, especially abstract or mid century silver and pewter ones. Accessories are what you make them! Hopefully channelling Baroness Hale not HM QE2. My tip, wear it high on the shoulder, not on your boob.

I used to. But oddly enough this year I took them all off because they looked odd.

I have quite a collection- I used to wear them a lot in my 20s, when workwear was often a jacket with lapels. These days, I'm more often in jeans and t-shirt, and the fabrics wouldn't take the weight.

I do have a couple that are worth a bit - a lovely Victorian one in good and pearls which was my grandmother's, but the rest are wood, enamel, pewter, ceramic, all sorts of things - mini paint pallet, birds, basket of flowers, abstract patterns. Loads of others. Then I can wear what suits my mood.

I think they can look good on a plain coat.

Also to make a top that's too low look decent.

So a small brooches for a top and bigger bolder ones for a coat.

I have a few of each but I lost a "good" one, as my mum would have said, from a coat I wore at a funeral so mine are all just costume jewellery now

I'm 60s and have worn them since my teens, mainly collect Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau, a couple of Georgian black dot paste (sparkly for evening) and some seed pearl pieces. Don't wear much other jewellery and I think they're just my 'thing'!

You do have to be careful with the material as they don't sit right on anything too flimsy and the pins can damage. I wear them on coats and jackets and on the v or scoop of dresses/tops or at the neck. Scarves that are eg velvet also OK.

Gosh, they don’t have that vibe at all to me. More the opposite- quirky, individualistic, anti-fashion.

64, have worn brooches for decades, collect a particular maker, abstract styles. Often have nice comments on them, wear them on bags, jackets, pockets, in trios... about my style and the fashion currently is a bit contrived for me, I like jewellery to be fun. You have to be careful re. fabric and how well they are made, so good pins, locks, finishing smooth and not about to click everything it touches. I don't wear on knitwear but do wear scarf rings occasionally, as I also like vintage silk scarves. Like most clothing ornaments, usually something for everyone. I like a button clip too!

They are very much making a come back! Along with the kerchief and triangle scarf.

So yes, a bit old lady, but that's the fashion vibe!

I wear brooches a lot. Accessories are a key part of my unique look and I have a huge collection.

I have a few - some antique/vintage ones from my grandmother/mother and some new ones I’ve bought myself (love the Michael Michaud botanical ones which I’ve bought in the shop at the v&a) I love them and do wear them on coats and jackets and occasionally on a plain black polo neck jumper.

Yes, I wear brooches. I got most of them from Vinted.

Probably not what you mean, but sometimes I have loads on my handbag, or
on normal clothes. I think they finish a casual outfit quite well.
I don't really wear one single brooch, I think stacking them makes it more interesting.

On a smart dress, more at belt level.

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