Wear and Resist is an independent brand of empowering jewellery, founded by Sarah Day, raising awareness and money for women's charities. Everything is made in her Oxfordshire studio. Her daughter, Eliza, is her inspiration, muse and model.
New Wuthering Heights necklace
Shall we all go back to our roots? I'm feeling a little half savage and hardy right now.
Snowdrop season
Earrings to celebrate the first green shoots of the year. Only available for a limited time.
And now for something a little different ...
A tribute to the good source energy. Love is the only thing that will heal this world.
Because our purpose on this earth is not to make things easy for everyone else
An array of glittery, glam and subtle colours to celebrate your refusal to just play nice.
Choose your charms!
Lovely durable stainless steel bracelets and necklaces
£8 off these funky Resist star earrings with any word necklace or brooch
The discount will be applied automatically and they will come in the same box.
What a company! These necklaces are awesome, never seen anything quite like them and all support one charity or another! Go to the website and buy one, or two! You won't regret it!!
Love this !I bought this for myself and I love it (and what Wear and Resist is all about). It looks good with my other jewellery, it’s nice quality, the swapable charms are a great idea and I liked it so much I got the necklace too!
Excellent reactions to these… Every woman I meet loves these. They cause great reactions and conversations wherever I wear them. They’re also comfortable and light. Cannot recommend highly enough. PS: my husband hates them. I. Don’t. Care.
Female-founded and fiercely independent
I started Wear and Resist because I wanted to wear jewellery that said something, while supporting women's charities. It remains a very small sustainable business. I design and make what I want, and I don't answer to investors or work with charities that don't allow me to voice my own opinions.
Solar-powered
Wear and Resist is running on solar power, and we are in the process of making our home and workshop self-sustaining.
Perspex is an acrylic made of Polymethyl Methacrylate (PMMA), which has 100% recyclability. It is made from monomers that it can be broken back down into and does not release chemicals at normal temperatures or break down into micro plastics. It is considered a fully recyclable circular product. I have very little waste as I make in small quantities and design each sheet as tightly as I can for cutting. I recycle all of my offcuts.
Female-founded and fiercely independent
I started Wear and Resist because I wanted to wear jewellery that said something, while supporting women's charities. It remains a very small sustainable business. I design and make what I want, and I don't answer to investors or work with charities that don't allow me to voice my own opinions.
Solar-powered
Wear and Resist is running on solar power, and we are in the process of making our home and workshop self-sustaining.
Perspex is an acrylic made of Polymethyl Methacrylate (PMMA), which has 100% recyclability. It is made from monomers that it can be broken back down into and does not release chemicals at normal temperatures or break down into micro plastics. It is considered a fully recyclable circular product. I have very little waste as I make in small quantities and design each sheet as tightly as I can for cutting. I recycle all of my offcuts.
Blog posts
Rantings on a f*cked up world. Make art not war.
We don’t have to buy into the world they are creating out of the world they are destroying in the process. It’s time to untangle ourselves from their webs, to return to the things that make us truly content. Not 'happy', because happy is an emotion that comes in bursts, the light that balances the inevitiable grief and and sadness that we all must feel. Happy was never supposed to be how we went about our lives 24-7. It is another marketing construct, a way to sell you shit. At its most basic level marketing works on pain points: pointing out to you what might be wrong with you or making you unhappy and then selling you something to solve it.
The W.I.T.C.H. movement of the 1960s
WITCH is an all-women Everything. It’s theater, revolution, magic, terror, joy, garlic flowers, spells ... It’s an awareness that witches and gypsies were the original guerillas and resistance fighters against oppression… There is no ‘joining’ WITCH. If you are a woman and dare to look within yourself, you are a Witch…Whatever is repressive, solely male-oriented, greedy, puritanical, authoritarian – those are your targets. (Witch Leaflets)
On going quiet, and the elusive search for hope
I have wanted to try to organise my thoughts into words for a long time now, and each time I sit down to do it, it all feels too huge and just too f*cking dark. But I am going to persevere, as it’s starting to feel like an actual blockage in my mental system: all these thoughts that flood my head every time I go to write a post or send an email and then stop because it just feels too weird to be going on like normal when all these things are happening around us.
Let customers speak for us
Love my necklace 😍. It’s great quality and amazing value. Delivery was swift and I can’t wait to wear it x
This is a lovely business and website. Easy to navigate, inspiring.
My pieces arrived promptly, in lovely packaging, which I will continue to store them in, to keep them shiny and beautiful.
Very happy, thank you Sarah
Amazingly gorgeous purposeful resistance jewellery….so happy with my purchase…just putting it on reminds me of who I am in this crazy world.
It’s also a great conversation piece!
I LOVE it, thanks WEAR & RESIST
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Love wearing this necklace and the sentiment behind it; it gives me a much needed boost and reminder to keep on keeping on. Already had lots of compliments and placed a second order for some earrings to match!
Another beautiful necklace from Wear and Resist. I love how delicate the design is. Beautiful colour. As usual, I get a lot of compliments when wearing it.
Great customer service too.
Perfect gift! Great item and lovely quality. Excellent gift for Tatty Devine fans. Will be back to buy more.
A shiny way to express I've had enough... 'nah' and 'nope'. Commented on by lots of people. Add some bling and some sass
Speedy delivery, excellent customer service, beautiful, meaningful pieces. I've purchased a number of pieces over the years for myself and as presents and it's always a lovely, lovely experience.
Beautiful necklace! I've had so many compliments. It works really well with my silver chain and doesn't get twisted or tangled. As always, Sarah manages to capture exactly what we're all thinking. Highly recommend and can't wait to see what Wear and Resist have in store in the future.
Lovely website and Sarah’s emails always manage ti be uplifting in the face of so much gloom.
Really cute earrings, speedy delivery, easy to use website. This is my fourth pair from Wear and Resist, there’s so many fab choices!
My yellow mirror bolt is so beautiful to look at. The chain fully extended is the perfect length to stop the pendant hiding under my t-shirts. A bonus for my niche brain, as a bolt is the logo of 1 of my favourite bands!
