Bakelite Earrings
Yes, OK, I have too many Bakelite earrings. But you do need to have all the different colours, and ones to match every bead necklace, and every geometric necklace, and every bangle! And then a few spectacular ones that you can wear on their own. With the craze for short hair in the 1920s earrings became more important, and began to be made like shoes, a different shape for each ear, whereas before, the right and left would have been interchangeable. My huge Art Deco sunburst clip ons are a case in point.
There are many simple earrings which are just a cut half circle with a clip on back, which usually came as part of a set or parure. 
But there are also lovely carved examples in opaque or clear bakelite. A lot of the marbled colours look great in the hoop style of earrings, and there were also dangly ones with various numbers of beads, to match the necklaces. Some of the geometric necklaces would have matching earrings with combinations of Bakelite with Celluloid or metal. There were also figurals, with animals, fruit, and other objects. In the Anything Goes Jazz era you could dangle pretty much anything from an earlobe!
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