A merchant in dark gray wool who wore only a red-enameled circle pin for jewelry, Mistress Asher dropped her eyes whenever a sister glanced at her, but they had no interest in her.

Yet Re-anne's well-cut, fine blue wool, though unadorned save for a red-enameled circle pin on the high neck, was decidedly unsuited for skulking about the countryside.

Here was a gold-filled circle pin that most likely had belonged to her late mother.

She wore a pony coat and white shoes and a circle pin.

Tiffany then began offering a wider variety of silver ornaments, everything from sedate circle pins and button earrings to smart modern designs, including zigzaggy pins and ear clips by Paloma Picasso.

Wearing penny loafers, argyle socks, Ambush perfume; maybe his ridiculous school sweater with the big gold S; one of those gold circle pins.

They focus on sculptured vulvas decorated with paint, strips of fur and jewelry, especially the circle pins that in the 1960's were said to symbolize virginity (mostly by snickering teenage boys).

If Erté's not hot, it's in part because his unvarying stylishness is part of our collective past, like circle pins and Capezio shoes.

"You had Marc Jacobs doing the little circle pins," said Kim Hastreiter, the editor of Paper.

Villager style made its appearance in the late 1950's, featuring a classic preppy look of casual sophistication, with small prints, pleated skirts and Peter Pan collars worn with a circle pin.