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.
Get your difficult on – in style
An array of glam new colours to celebrate your refusal to just play nice.
£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.
Choose your charms!
Lovely durable stainless steel bracelets and necklaces
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
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.
On being militant, each in your own way
The Suffragettes were not posh tea drinking women, who kept themselves busy sewing sashes. They were radicals who caused far more harm to property. The windows they smashed were on Bond Street, Regent Street and Downing Street. And that was why it worked, because: ‘There is something that governments care far more for than human life, and that is the security of property.’
Let customers speak for us
Absolutely stunning earrings, thrilled with the quality and the sheer shimmering beauty! Excellent customer care too - immediate response to an email question, follow up attention and super quick to deliver.
I'll be asking Santa to buy me a few more pairs / a necklace as this is a wonderful company to do business with
Just a little something for me to brighten up those stormy days.
I absolutely love how such a small thing can carry such a big message.... Even in the dark!
Love love loooove!!!
I’m so pleased I found wear and resist. I LOVE an accessorized form of resistance! Sarah’s products are bold, unique and make a real statement!
I bought the mix and match mirror lighting bolt earrings set for a friend. I love the fact you could mix and match the colours as I couldn’t decide on which colour way to go for. What a great idea!! I also bought a pair of the electric green mirror lightning bolt earrings for a friend’s bday next year.
I was really impressed with the quality of the earrings, especially as the production time and dispatch/delivery was so quick!
The communication and customer service from Sarah was exceptional. This really means alot to me, and I appreciate it even more so coming from small businesses, as they are usually a one man band (or in this case woman!). So it means alot to me that she took the time to reply to enquires and messages when she has every other aspect of her business to oversee. I know people who run small businesses, so I know it’s not easy trying to juggle everything!
Thank you so much Sarah, I shall be back for more!! x
This is a perfect bracelet. The sentiment and message of Emily's beautiful poem framed in this very pretty bracelet is just gorgeous. The glow in the dark feature ensures that the wearer is reminded of the poem's power even through those storm troubled, sleepless nights.
I've been admiring this for a while. So a cheeky discount offer meant a yes from me. Decided to get a persist charm too. Really happy. Great service, lovely products from fab people. X
I bought and gave away a couple of these last year, but with the increased appropriation of Christian symbols by the nationalist right, this is the perfect way to let people know that’s not the Jesus this vicar believes in! So thank you x
It doesn't feel like much is splendid in the world at the moment. But you are. You are splendid. So am I.
I do a lot of my work online, and most of my colleagues and clients now keep an eye out for which if Sarah's necklaces I'm going to be wearing. Hope? Persist? Enough? Courage? (I've worn Courage an awful lot of late) Power? Woman of a Certain Age? Well, next time I am doing a session on menopause I'll be wearing Splendid.
We bought this as a gift for a friend , to remind her we love her and she can do this, she ‘bloody loves it’ and wears it every day. perfect x
Love my necklace and trying to choose another from the fantastic array!
Wear and Resist, you are a beacon of hope 🥰
Absolutely love my latest edition, this necklace brings me such it to wear.
Highly recommend!
Arrived beautifully packaged, with a personal note. Necklace is excellent quality - substantial hardware. Great designs, hard to choose which one I wanted. Highly recommended for gifts for self or others!
The necklace is good quality and colours are just as described. Will buy more!
If you want a really beautifully crafted piece of jewellery that shows how you feel, look no further! Love my Woman of a Certain Rage brooch and my Raging Necklace! They always get commented on 🤩
Love this necklace so much. Not Having it is my go to phrase at work so now I can just point to my shiny new necklace to let people know my displeasure. Fantastic quality and I'm always getting asked where I got it from.
Gorgeous lightning bolt earrings delivered so quickly to replace the ones I lost. Lovely little touch too with the handwritten note on the card. At times like this, we have never needed Wear and Resist range more!
