Why we started selling single earrings
The pair was always a convention of how jewelry gets made, not how it gets worn.
Look at how people wear earrings now. Three holes in one ear and one in the other. A small stud sitting high on the lobe with nothing opposite it. A gold hoop on one side and a silver one on the other, on purpose, because that is the combination that looks right.
None of that is a pair. It is a set of single decisions, made one piercing at a time.
Jewelry is still sold two at a time anyway, and that is a manufacturing habit more than a design one. Pairs are simpler to cast, simpler to pack, simpler to count. The format was built around the workshop, and the person wearing it inherited it.
We have been asked to break it for a long time, and the asks are always specific. Someone wants the Theo on its own. Someone wants one Lyle in silver to wear against the gold one they already have. Someone has one piercing and no use for a second earring sitting in a drawer.
Until now the answer was that we would look into it. From today, sixteen of our styles are sold one at a time.
What that actually means
Each single is its own product, with its own photography and its own price. It is not half a pair, and it is not a request you have to email us about. You add one earring to the bag and one earring arrives.
Most of the sixteen come in recycled 14K gold vermeil and recycled 925 sterling silver, so you can buy one of each if mixing metals is the point. A few are in one metal only. Prices start at $41.
Where to start
If you are filling a second or third piercing, start small and light. The Nico Uneven Stud is the smallest way in at $41, and the Andy Stud is the same price in vermeil. Both sit flat enough to wear under a hoop without crowding it.
If you already own a pair you love, the single is how you extend it rather than repeat it. One more Talia Small Hoop above the one you wear, or one Maverick Huggie to close the top of the ear.
And if you want the mixed metal thing done properly, buy the same style twice, once in each. The Lyle Small Triangle Hoop is the one we see worn that way most.
Why not every style
We only split a style while we are holding enough of it to keep the pairs in stock. That means the list will move. Styles will come into it and drop out of it depending on what we have, and a style being absent is usually about stock rather than about design.
Everything is still sold as a pair exactly as before. Nothing has been taken away. There is just a second way to buy it now.