Drop Earrings Know How to Hold the Room

Drop Earrings Know How to Hold the Room

Drop earrings finish an outfit without asking the rest of it to compete, working through sculptural brass and resin as easily as sterling silver or a gold-tone finish. They read as evening pieces even against something plain, since a strong drop earring can frame a face on its own.

The Case For One Strong Earring

Drop earrings have a useful kind of audacity: they announce that you meant to finish getting dressed, without asking the rest of the outfit to audition for the same job. I trust a strong earring more than a complicated stack of jewelry, especially when the clothes already have a neckline or texture worth noticing. The geometry of the Eddie Borgo Pyramid Drop Earrings makes its case in gold tone alone, no matching necklace required. For something quieter in color but still legible, the sterling silver in the Juju Vera Antonella Sterling Silver Earrings is a useful counterpoint to all that warmer metal in the rest of the edit. I would choose by contrast, not by trying to make every accessory agree: if the dress is ornate, let the earring stay clean, and if the outfit is spare, give it something with more character.