Votes For Women Beaded Earrings – Suffragette Colours

A pair of dangle earrings with a “Votes For Women” sign hanging from three beads: white, purple and green.

Those three colours were adopted in 1908 by the Women’s Social and Political Union, the suffragette organisation founded by Emmeline Pankhurst in 1903. Purple stood for loyalty and dignity, white for purity, and green for hope. Suffragettes wore the colours on sashes, badges and jewelry so that supporters could recognise each other in public.

These earrings carry that idea forward, with the slogan and the colours in one small piece.