On the occasion of International Women's Day, we remember the iconic jewelry of the suffragettes – the initiators of the women's rights movement.
Green, purple and white are the three symbolic colours of the suffragette movement. The combination is an acronym for Give Women the Vote , which stands for Green , White and Violet , and also the symbolic meaning of the colours: purple for nobility, white for purity, green for hope.
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A still from the film ” The Suffragette “
The symbolic power of suffragette fashion was tested on the streets. Through expressive decorations made of tricolor ribbons, like-minded women recognized each other and at the same time manifested their movement to society.
A still from the film ” The Suffragette “
The so-called Holloway brooch, in the form of a lattice and tricolor, is particularly striking. It was invented by the daughter of activist Emmeline Pankhurst and dedicated to all the women who were arrested and thrown into Holloway Women's Prison.
Fashion played a funny joke with these jewelry. At the end of the 19th century, the combination of amethysts, garnets, peridots and pearls was a big trend. Peridot was one of the favorite stones of King Edward VII, and therefore it was actively used in jewelry. At the end of the 19th century, a deposit of demantoid was discovered in the Urals in Russia – a variety of garnet of an amazing yellow-green hue, and it can often be seen in Art Nouveau jewelry. The color of rich purple amethyst went extremely well with this shade of green – they were considered complementary, so they liked to use it together. Pearls have not yet lost their leading position as the main jewelry material (diamonds became completely popular in the 20th century). Due to the similarity of the color palette, necklaces and brooches made from these materials were mistakenly called suffragettes, although the fancy things from the jewelry boxes of wealthy bourgeois were in no way involved in the progressive social movement.
