costume jewelry
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After two years of mostly small exchanges — cookbook galleys, costume jewelry, a set of dinner plates with just the right heft — we brought home something that, improbably, shifted the cadence of our cooking.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2025
Playing dress-up at her grandmother’s, where she’d deck herself to the nines in borrowed costume jewelry, she soon found out that what was encouraged by her open-minded family was derided in the outside world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2024
Born Aug. 29, 1921, Apfel was famous for her irreverent, eye-catching outfits, mixing haute couture and oversized costume jewelry.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
He worked a series of day jobs, including a 15-year stint as a costume jewelry designer.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2022
L. Einstein & Co. sold costume jewelry, and I worked there through the Christmas holidays and into the spring.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
