Hoop Earrings

Hoop earrings from 8mm huggies that sit tight to the lobe up to 20mm hoops that arrive before you do. Chunky croissant, hollow, endless, twisted, square, pavé, pearl and hinged huggies — 18K gold vermeil at 3 microns over solid sterling silver, or gold plated. Gold, silver and rose gold, many sold as singles, from $12.

Hoop Earring Questions

Are hoop earrings in style?

Hoops have been worn continuously since roughly 2500 BC, so the honest answer is that they don't cycle the way other jewelry does. What moves is width and size — thin and seamless is the quiet default now, chunky and croissant is the louder one. Both keep selling, which is why both are here.

What size hoop earrings should I buy?

12mm if it's your first pair. It reads as a hoop from across a room and still tucks under a phone. Under 10mm is a huggie that hugs the lobe. Past 16mm you're making a decision people will notice. Measured across the outside diameter — we run 8mm to 20mm.

Are hoop earrings cultural appropriation?

Worth answering properly rather than dodging. Hoops are ancient and near-universal — Nubian, Greek, Roman, South Asian. In the modern US they also carry specific meaning in Black and Latina communities, where big hoops were worn as identity through decades when they were dismissed as unprofessional. That history is real, and the discomfort people voice is usually about who got punished for wearing them versus who got praised. Wearing hoops isn't appropriation. Knowing that context costs nothing.

Can you sleep in hoop earrings?

Huggies, yes — the hinge sits flat and there's nothing to catch. Anything larger finds your pillow and bends. If you want a pair you genuinely never take out, buy 8mm or 10mm hinged huggies and keep the 18mm ones for waking hours.

How do you open hoop earrings?

Depends on the closure, and using the wrong motion is how they bend. A hinged huggie has a latch you press from underneath — don't pull the hoop apart. An endless hoop separates by easing the ends sideways, never outward. Click-tops need a firm push at the join. If it's resisting, you're using the wrong motion.

Do hoop earrings suit men?

They always have — sailors, pirates and Renaissance nobility all wore them, and a single small hoop in one ear has been standard menswear for decades. Practically: 10 to 14mm, one ear or both, and thinner rather than chunky reads as deliberate rather than costume.

By style: gold hoop earrings, silver hoop earrings and huggie hoop earrings. Everything sits in earrings.