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The newest way to wear earrings? Go for solid over dangly – and try an extra piercing | Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion

Think wonky pebble-shaped rather than perfect little globes. Less Queen Elizabeth II, more Vivienne Westwood

The other morning, a ring of the doorbell knocked my getting ready off stride, and by the time I realised I was earring-less I was almost at the tube station, too late to turn back. Also, a rule that I stuck to religiously until recently – that mixing silver and gold was as much of a faux pas as wearing odd socks – has fallen away. So I would be able to sunbathe with my trusty desert-island Complete Works of Shakespeare without a metal post digging into my skull, and they would be less likely to get dislodged if I had to take my sweater off to flag down a passing boat.

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