I do Civil War reenacting, and all the jewelry they sell at the reenactments is overpriced and there's very little variety. I'm not a stickler for perfectly period correct pieces, but what kind of jewelry that I could buy or might already have could I wear?
Tags: during, type, worn, civil war reenactingOriginally posted 2010-08-21 07:31:20. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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Here’s a site that may interest you: http://www.fem-jewelry.com/reenactors_corner/
Lots of ideas!
Also:
http://www.ladiesofreenacting.com/Victorianjewelry.html
http://www.greybirdrelics.com/vintage_jewelry.htm
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Here’s a clue smarty…The jewelery sold at reenactments is called “Period” or “Costume” jewelery. It IS the type of jewelery worn during that period in history when the Civil War was fought. AND how do you expect anyone to tell you what kind of jewelery you can wear that you already have… when you haven’t told us what jewelery you already have?
Union or Confederate? The Confederate ladies took a stance on jewelry – anything valuable (gold wedding rings, brooches, etc) they donated to the war effort (or at least put away and didn’t wear in public). So they would wear things like lockets with locks of hair in them, or bracelets woven from the hair of dear departed loved ones. They wore ivory or bone ornaments (again, these would be mostly bracelets) and small pierced earrings.
In the north, there was no such patriotic charge. Women wore their regular jewels.