Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: forget the church fete vibes, the brooch is now fashion’s badge of honour

In an unexpected turn of events, brooches have escaped from Granny’s jewellery box, climbed out the window and gone clubbing I have arrived in my brooch era about two decades ahead of schedule. I had brooches earmarked for a later life stage, accessories that would chime with The Archers, gardening, possibly solving the odd crime in the village, that sort of thing. But in an unexpected turn of events, I am already the correct age to wear a brooch. Not because I’m old, but because brooches have c