Earrings For a Song

It’s such fun on holidays to shop in markets and boutiques for inexpensive jewellery. These pairs of earrings remind me so much of my summer in Lisbon, and Essaouira – I first wore those blue ones dancing on a beach at a music festival in Morocco. I bought them at Bijou Brigitte, a veritable Aladdin’s cave of cheap and cheerful treasure.

Coco Chanel had the right idea when she told us to load up on costume jewellery. Who wants those horrid old diamonds and rubies after all? The bourgeoisie can have them! Give me enamelled tiers of blue, glass beads and cloisonné charms any day. And let’s make a song and dance while we’re about it.