On Monday, I went out to buy a pair of gold hoop earrings.
I bought a gold pair, and snatched up a silver pair on sale as I checked out.
I hadn’t found any of these newfangled collar or climber earrings. “No problem,” I said, “I’ll just get some on Macy’s online.”
And then the snowball started rolling.
A collar and climber at Macy’s.
Another two at Overstock.
Two more at Amazon.
Who am I kidding, I said, and then bought ten pair, TEN PAIR, from eBay.
None of them were over four bucks. Well, eight bucks. Maybe one was ten. I tried to keep it classy. With the exception of one pair of fish, and, okay, the elephant heads, no earrings look like anything but earrings.
I eventually stopped after page 75 of used earrings.
And now that they are all displayed in front of me, I see that I put the “costume” in “costume jewelry.” Not a single classy pair, except maybe the square crystal Nordtrom’s ones that were too boring for the original buyer to take out of the packaging.
I’m only halfway through the three months of healing. This does not bode well.
5 responses to “Earring Overdose”
Hey, you lost a lot of weight. Of course your old earrings no longer fit, so you need to replace the jewelry wardrobe.
Um, what’s a “collar earring”? The examples you showed from Macy’s and Overstock look like plain old post earrings.
(On eBay, you have to pay at least, bare minimum, $20 for decent earrings, and that’s only if you happen to win on the first bid.)
~~Silk – only the first one is a collar. If you look at the side view of the first photo, that disassembles into a normal post pearl earring, that goes in the front of your ear, and then the triangular ray thing is positioned behind your ear, then the post goes through that, and is then all capped with a standard earring back. The ash ethical ones, with stars and leaves, are the climbers.
Oh, I get it. Part of the earring is in front of the earlobe, and part behind? Cool. I’m not up on current earring styles. My ears aren’t pierced, so I buy “vintage” on eBay and Ruby Lane.
~~Silk – yep, there were a lot of vintage clip-ons, and they were more expensive than the pierced.
Also, I thought I got two from Amazon, but when they arrived there were four, a forgettable pair of silver studs and a dangly navy blue pair for the navy suit.