Opinions wanted! Which way round would you wear these?

[TheKitchenWitch]

I am in the process of converting clips to posts on my vintage earrings so that I can actually wear them.
These ones have clips so that you’d have the pointy bit facing upwards which I think is a bit weird.
Which way round would you wear them?

Down.

I like the shells up (like the one on the left), and the leaves down (right).

I meant left for the leaf!

The RH shell and the LH leaf

I think they should both be as on the left, with the thinner pointy bit going down.

Left looks best.

Another vote for The RH shell and the LH leaf

Shell pointing up and leaf pointing down.

Right shell, left leaf.

YOU ARE NO HELP! I need a nice clear decision.

Are you going for RH shell because it's wider at the bottom then?

Right shell, left leaf

Both as they are on the left. Shell pointing up and leaf down.

But if you are putting a ‘post’ on the back, can you not just swivel them around and wear them either way?

If I put the post in the middle, yes, but I wouldn't want them swivelling around at will so I'd want to put it at either end.

Another vote for right shell, left leaf.

Thank you everyone! I am going to go with the majority and do RH shell and LH leaf :)

Ooh, I won’t comment as you’re decided now, but how are you adding the post? Just glue? And how are you removing the clip?

I’d love to do this.

I watched a youtube video which convinced me that this made sense, even though a part of me is screaming NO NO NO THEY'RE VINTAGE but what's the point of having them when I never, ever wear clip ons? Also, "vintage" = "secondhand tat" really :D

I am cutting the clips off with plier cutter things (hope that's not too technical for you Biscuit :D ) from my jewellery repair kit. A while ago I replaced a whole load of open earring hoops with closed (french) ones because I never wore the open ones as they kept getting caught in my hair iyswim. I learnt how to properly open and close the joining rings too, which was really useful!

I've now bought a load of posts and backs, and some E6000 glue (which is what all the tutorials I found recommend). I know that I should probably be welding them on but I just want to be able to wear them, and tbh most of them aren't really worth much, they're just pretty, old costume jewellery.

I've also got a load of brooches I never wear which I am going to convert to hair clips ie cut off the pin and stick hair slide/clip on the back. I'm planning on doing the same with some old cufflinks that I have picked up too, as nobody I know wears cufflinks and some of them really are very pretty and would make good earrings or hair clips!

OMG that's made me sound really twee and artsy-craftsy, hasn't it?

Not at all and it’s really interesting and useful.
Thank you! I have lots of vintage jewellery but am lacking earrings as there are so few that are for pierced ears.