This silver and malachite brooch is a favorite. I got it at a sale at the old natural history museum at the U. of Oklahoma before they tore it down and made the colossal structure that stands now. (By the way, in the basement of the old building were all those phenomenal dinosaur bones that are now proudly on display, and were, I swear, forgotten for decades.) The brooch really is a bit creepy, the way the legs are all splayed out. When I bought it, the young woman, a little diva who should have been selling clothes at Forever 21, shrieked and said she couldn't touch the brooch because she was too afraid of spiders. Oh for godssake! So I had to take it out of the case and wrap it up myself.
This brooch goes with a lot of different jackets. It gets a lot of looks, though most people are too polite to actually comment on it. Here it is on a wool and cashmere jacket from -- where else -- Harold's, and cut in a style that's a bit out of date. Most of my looks are retro at this point, by default.
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