But the origins of earrings for men may date back far longer than popular consciousness remembers.
Archaeological evidence suggests that men from the Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BC) and England during the Renaissance period (1500s-1600s AD) accessorised with earrings. Up to the late 19th century, the Ainu men of Japan wore earrings too.
The gender-bound conventions of accessorising which we call traditional today were therefore not always the norm in the distant past.
Indeed, history tells us that men may have adorned their lobes with earrings for as long as women have.