A mother shares the story behind her necklace and how it represents both her children who lived and the losses she experienced.
Every day, I wear the same necklace. It’s a gold chain with a charm on it: the letter A in blue enamel for my first child, Adar, who is now almost 7. When I gave birth to my second child this past summer, I went to pick out a matching charm to add to the necklace, an N for Naomi. Something about it felt off, though.In the six years that passed between having my first and second child, I experienced four losses.
Fashion historian Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, points out that this style of mourning jewelry in Western culture predates the Victorian period, appearing by the 1750s. “That’s when you get a really protoromantic emotional movement in England, was much more about a personal self and sentimental relationships with loved ones,” Steele says. Essentially, we see the rise of mourning jewelry coincide with the modern notion of love.
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