Once a fixture of polite society and inherited jewellery boxes, brooches have not-so secretly slipped back into the sartorial limelight. Designers have begun to treat the pin as a small act of ...

“These days, better than a tweet,” as one stylist put it. By Linda Dyett Widely considered stodgy and trite, brooches have been seriously out of fashion ever since the power-suit-ridden “Dynasty” ...

1. Silk flower pin with faux pearl center, $16, Salmagundi. 2. “Daisy Burst” Lucite-and-rock-crystal pin, $445, Alexis Bittar. 3. “Feathered Parrot” pendant pin, $445, Alexis Bittar. 4. Kapital brass ...

Simply sign up to the Style myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “But I am not a brooch wearer,” was my answer when I was asked to dilate on the subject of suit jewellery for this magazine ...