| Earrings have been natural ornaments for men and | | | | around the face, earrings bounced back, this time |
| women ever since the desire grew in the ancient | | | | with increase in complexity of design. The famous |
| man to adorn his and her body. These have been | | | | and heavy girandole earrings of the 17th century with |
| worn from time immemorial to project status and | | | | excessive use of gems and metal gave way to the |
| wealth or indicate religious ceremonies which have | | | | longer but lighter pendeloque earrings in the 18th |
| been performed. In a number of societies the ear | | | | century. The 20th century bade goodbye to piercing |
| lobes are pierced very early on in life even now in | | | | of the ears with the advent of the screw backs and |
| modern times and a small stick inserted in each lobe | | | | clip on type of earrings. Multiple piercing of the ears is |
| to keep the hole clear for an earring to be inserted | | | | now haute with both women and men sporting |
| at a later date. Antique earrings go back in time to | | | | earrings to suit their mood, dress and the occasion. |
| around 3000 BC when two different earrings were in | | | | Russian jewellery is synonymous with antique earrings |
| existence shaped like hoops or like intricate pendants. | | | | and the famous House of Faberge and its pastel |
| Antique earrings have also been found from a royal | | | | eggs. Online shops now offer earrings with blue |
| grave in Iraq dated 2500 BC. | | | | Faberge eggs with crystals. There is the famous set |
| Antique earrings came back after the dark age of | | | | of Catherine the Great Easter earrings and the |
| poverty around 2 AD with the use of precious | | | | Jeweled Cap and Pearl earrings. The Faberge Flower |
| stones like emeralds and sapphire with noble metals. | | | | earrings going back to a 1907 design is most |
| In the middle ages a change in fashion almost killed | | | | exquisite. Other equally attractive earrings are |
| earrings with the new shoulder length hair hiding the | | | | Pre-Columbian Cat, Fuluni Hoop and Greco-Roman |
| ear lobes! With the subsequent disappearance of high | | | | Black Onyx earrings. |
| collars and a subtle mutation of hair style shaped | | | | |