Tutti Frutti Jewelry

Tutti Frutti Jewelry

Do you know about yummy tutti frutti jewelry? Also called fruit salad jewelry? I have found some of it at a super-huge flea market in Southern California that I visited on a trip many of years ago.

I have also inherited some pieces from my mother. Every once in a while I find some at garage sales if I am lucky. I am always happy to wear them because I love unusual, colorful pieces.

Fruit salad jewelry should be fun and beautiful, it is based on one of my favorite foods – fruit salad!

The first Tutti Frutti Jewelry was Fine Jewelry

The original tutti frutti jewelry was fine jewelry. In, tutti frutti jewelry originated when the famous French jeweler Pierre Cartier created a beautiful bracelet for Queen Alexandra to wear with some beautiful Indian gowns she had.

The 1900’s were a time of fascination for the West with all things Eastern. The East – aka the “Orient” was romanticized as a place of beauty and mystery. From Gilbert and Sullivan and the Mikado, to Asian art – America and Europe were fascinated by the East.

Pierre Cardin continued to be the face of tutti frutti jewelry, with many fine jewelry pieces created throughout the early 1900’s.

Fine Jewel Tutti-Fruitti Jewelry from eBay

eBay is a fine resource for rare items of all kinds: including fruit salad jewelry.

All the jewelry below is fine jewelry: family heirloom quality.

Gorgeous, heirloom vintage tutti-fruitti jewelry from eBay. This is the finest fruit salad you will find.

Exquisite Cartier Tutti Frutti Jewelry

Here is a lovely video about the Cartier Tutti Frutti jewelry – fine jewelry indeed.

Fashion Jewelry Fruit Salad Style

ANTIQUE ART DECO CZECH Tutti Frutti Satin Glass Crystal Flower VINTAGE BROOCHVINTAGE Harlequin PASTEL TUTTI FRUTTI Crystals Two Tier Riviere BRIDAL NECKLACEGorgeous VINTAGE JEWELLERY Tutti Frutti Harlequin CRYSTAL Long 30″ NECKLACEFabulous Resin Juliana Style Multi Color Fruit Salad Couture Necklace Earrings

Much more affordable yet still lovely tutti-fruitti jewelry made of glass and stones.

Tutti Frutti Jewelry was Made Popular by Carmen Miranda

Fruit Salad jewelry went from fine jewelry to kitsch in the ’40’s when Brazilian bombshell Carmen Miranda took the idea of fruit salad jewelry literally.

Carmen became famous for her wacky, fruit salad hats. And the outlandish, colorful jewelry just made the look more appealing.

And soon fruit salad jewelry entered the world of costume jewelry.

Carmen Miranda Still Lives Today!

Some Modern Tutti Fruitti Bling

Retro Antique Vintage Style Amber Yellow Pineapple Rhinestone Cluster EarringsColorful color block bamboo texture multi bangles set total of 9 bangles metal textured braceletsAntique Vintage Retro Style Yellow Pineapple Rhinestone Cluster Earrings

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Tutti Frutti Jewelry belongs in every Jewelry Wardrobe

I think it takes a little courage to wear jewelry like this. Jewelry with every color of the rainbow has a bit of “devil may care” attitude to it.

But it is fun – and it is pretty.

Whether you have the budget for fine jewelry or just the costume jewelry – fruit salad jewelry can be a beautiful part of your jewelry wardrobe.

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