What’s the fastest way to slap the badge of 2004 on your fall wardrobe? Yes, the brooch. (Bonus points for those who don’t spell it “broach.”) But your pin doesn’t have to be a many-splendored, several-hundred-dollar thing. Retailers are coaxing brooches out of Granny’s attic by rendering them in faux fur and fabric instead of in vintage gemstones. The Gap’s pins run the gamut from horses to flowers in tweed, velvet and corduroy, for $5.50 to $12.50. (The Gap pin at right is $9.50.) A rabbit-fur flower pin at Jane Hamill, 1117 W. Armitage Ave., is $22, in pink, brown, black, hot pink and lime green. “I don’t know if it necessarily [skews] younger or older,” Hamill said. “It’s an alternative-looking brooch.” And it’s selling like crazy, she said.
