Jewellery & accessories
![Celluloid doll wearing garment pinned with variety of patriotic badges.](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/12/0087fd77ff9c475e8fd3993b403eeae9.jpg)
WW1
A patriotic fundraising memento
This tiny celluloid doll, just 10 centimetres in height and clothed in panels of ribbon, is showing her age
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Baubles, brooches & beads
We wear jewellery as articles of dress and fashion and for sentimental reasons – as tokens of love, as symbols of mourning, as souvenirs of travel
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Close to the heart
Expressions of love and endearment have long been embodied in keepsakes or jewellery worn or held close to the body
![A mannequin dressed in an elaborate Renaissance-style stage costume stands in a large Perspex-fronted display case . On the rear wall a small screen is showing a scene from the opera Lucrezia Borgia where Dame Joan Sutherland is wearing the same costume.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zl9du87e/staging/9800c0af2c2e7ca5215a5bde181672dc3bf5e850-3934x2811.jpg?rect=0,0,3934,2569&fit=max&auto=format)
Dressing Joan Sutherland
One of the most spectacular costumes on display in the exhibition The People’s House: Sydney Opera House at 50 is an extraordinary Renaissance dress designed by Kristian Fredrikson and worn by Dame Joan Sutherland in the part of the notorious Lucrezia Borgia
![Three hatpins c1900](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/12/365cdd9beb724d619cac828323a4347a.jpg)
Forgotten objects – the hatpin
Rarely seen or used today, hatpins were once an essential item for the fashionable lady
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Keeping cool
Shading the face, fanning a fire into a blaze or cooling food, shooing away insects, conveying social status, even passing discreet romantic messages - the use of the fan goes far beyond the creation of a breeze
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Keeping time
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries watches were designed to carried on the person, attached to a waist hook, looped over a belt or as part of a chatelaine in the case of women