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| Woven plastic wire brooch, 1940s |
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| Handmade felt brooch, 1940s |
During WW2 jewellery was considered a luxury and new pieces were scarce and unaffordable. As a result many women had to make their own jewellery. Handmade buttonholes made from felt, wool, wire and plastic were common as well as concoctions from old, broken pieces of jewellery. Women who worked in the munitions factories made wire brooches from pieces of scrap wire found on the factory floor. There were even instructions for making them in women's magazines of the day.
In addition to making jewellery women also made collars and cuffs to decorate a simple dress or jacket suit. Their are instructions for how to make dress decorations in The Pictorial Guide to Modern Home Dressmaking:
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