Perhaps you’re a little too shy to don the season’s big chunky necklaces and oversized arm bangles. Are those giant hoops still a bit more than you can handle? If your fashion statements are small but still significant (or just plain silly) we’ve found nine pairs of earrings for you: 1. Are you a foodie? Then you’ll love the tiny fork and spoon earrings made by artist Victoria Mason at the Australian Web site Oyemodern. They’re $45 (yes, that’s in U.S. dollars). 2. If you’re a slow mover until you have your Starbucks double ex? Then the little bitty coffee cups by the same artist are yours for $45. 3. Just in time for Halloween (or any time if you’re into this kind of thing) two tiny skulls with rubies for eyes by Me & Ro are waiting for you, but they’re not cheap: on sale for $209. 4. We’re not really sure what tiny meany pirate ducks mean, but if that’s the look you want, then get them at Dawanda. 5. Still looking for more foodie earrings? Try these sterling silver whisks from Uncommon Goods for $65. 6. If you’re a handyman, or woman, then you’ll get a giggle out of these wee levels that really work. Look snappy in them, and then use them to hang a painting, for $65. 7. If dance is more your cup of tea, then you’ll want to snap up the hand-painted tiny dancer earrings from Etsy for $15. 8. Still holding onto that collection of LPs in the off chance that the turntable revolution will return? Then don the small replicas of LPs, also from Etsy, for a very reasonable $4. And, last but, well, maybe they’re least . . . 9. How can you resist a pair of very small grilled cheese sandwich earrings? We’re hungry just looking at them. They’re also from Etsy, for $17.

The football games are coming, and it’s time to start thinking about beer. Not just the beer you’re going to drink, but what you’re going to serve it in. Toss the plastic cups. It’s time to upgrade. You could go with some basic but classy glasses, like the assortment at PubGlasses.com, where you can pick from a variety that can be personalized for $15 a glass (or get the special football game glass for $10 each). CocktailVibe has the Oslo beer glass ($32 for a set of 4); Pottery Barn has a solid-looking set of six British pint glasses for $28; and at Williams-Sonoma you can find a set of four glasses and have them monogrammed with your initials for $59. If you want to have a bit more fun, consider a pilsner glass with a color-changing LED base or a set with a witty saying (”Half Empty? Half Full?”) in Italian from Sur la Table for $39.50 (pictured, set of four). Uncommon Goods always has amusing and interesting items, like their artful set of glasses that make the beer look suspended in mid-air, or the set of four glasses with your “house rules” for football game parties. Or go all-out for your team with a crystal freezer mug complete with team logo (3 for $12.99). Want to really get fancy? A pair of Lalique Louvre beer glasses will cost you $142, or a handsome set of four Waterford crystal beer glasses will run $250. But aren’t your friends worth it? Now that we’ve got you thinking about beer glasses, why don’t you just go all the way and buy real German beer steins? At BeerSodaSports.com, there are all kinds of steins such as a Bavarian beer ceramic stein with a metal lid, for $38. Or go straight to BeerGlasshopper, where the selection is as wide as your new HDTV: from a real ox-horn with a pewter lid and base ($285), a 3/4-yard glass (with stand) that holds 68 oz. for $80, a 40-oz. Hofbrauhaus Octoberfest dimpled glass mug (pictured), a Swiss hand-carved colorful stein complete with fancy lid for $130 or - and yes, they really do drink from these glasses - an 80-oz. Hofbrauhaus glass drinking boot for $70. And, when your friends have had a boot or two, and shatter your precious purchase on the floor, just remember: That’s what friends are for.

Hillary Clinton gave a stirring speech at the Democratic National Convention last night in one of her signature pantsuits, this one a very bright orange. Much has been made of Clinton’s pantsuits during the campaign, the sameness of their cut, their bright colors, their shapelessness. Designers have decried them. Try as we might we could not find a name of the designer of Clinton’s pantsuits, but in searching we did come across some pretty pantsuits to share. Macy’s has a striking black suit with a pleated jacket by Calvin Klein, on sale for $145. Sutton Studio has a basic suit with Hillary-esque longer jacket on sale for $190 at Bloomingdales. The Le Suit line of pantsuits from J.C. Penney are not high style, but they’re safe and solid, such as one with a long houndstooth coat and black pants, or a brown one (on sale for $100) with similar styling to Clinton’s suits (albeit a little more tailored around the waist). Moving up the price scale, the high-end designer Web site Yoox seems to have the market in expensive suits cornered: there’s a Costume National simple suit for $410, a similar but bright red suit for $478, a loosely cut pale pink one from Jil Sander for $314 (marked down from $1,250!) and a gorgeous black Armani with cropped jacket (Hillary’s are never with cropped jackets, which are more stylish and common currently) for $1,178. Nordstrom has plenty of mix and match jackets and pants, such as a $398 Elie Tahari or a black Kenneth Cole with a cropped jacket cinched at the waist with a stylish skinny belt. You can see all of Nordstrom’s suit offerings on this page. The creator of the women’s pantsuit, the late Yves St. Laurent, was proud that Hillary Clinton wore pantsuits (albeit not any of his). At Style.com, you can review a gallery of St. Laurent’s pantsuits over the years (the one pictured is from his fall 2001 couture collection) to see how many ways he interpreted the style.

It’s like Craigslist, except there’s a panel of judges waiting to disqualify the bad impersonation of a Mies van der Rohe chair you once found cool enough to buy and are now hoping desperately to sell. We’re talking about Feel More Human’s Modern Flea Market, the classified advertising section of a site devoted to modern design goods. Here you can buy and sell (with no fee to list items) previously owned gems such as a trio of Nuevo white and chrome Opener barstools, which are said to be “like new,” for just $125 (plus $85 shipping). To give you some context, we found a pair of the same barstools, new, for $340 (shipping free). That makes them $170 each new. Now that’s a flea market! The judges must be very picky, though, or else the items are flying off the site. We only found five things for sale on our most recent visit. (That’s a very small flea market.) There were two pieces by the Canadian design firm, Hot House: a modern coffee table ($150, plus $65 shipping) and a modern side table (same price), with the set going for a mere $225 ( plus $70 shipping). Buying an item is as simple as e-mailing the seller. The idea is a good one, we think, providing more sellers discover the site, but it’s the brand-spanking-new section of the eco-friendly store that gets most of the action. We were impressed by the solar LED house numbers ($20 each), which take around one hour to charge on sunny days (2-3 hours otherwise), and by the Rekindle coffee table ($360, pictured), which uses just three pieces of environmentally friendly SmartWood.

Is there anything more fun than trying to wake up a teenager at the beginning of the school year? A teenager who has spent the last three months sleeping until noon? The only thing that is likely more fun is watching what happens when Clocky the alarm clock goes off. Clocky is cute and has big wheels (pictured), and after your teen his snooze button once, Clocky rolls off the bedside table and rolls around the room, continuing to buzz loudly: under the bed, against the door, in the bathroom, until said teen has to get out of bed to find him. Beautiful! He’s $50 at Bed, Bath and Beyond. Another fun one is the flying alarm clock. It has a cute little propeller on its top, and when it goes off, the propeller spins and flies away, carrying the key that makes the alarm clock stop its incredibly loud screeching. Fabulous, and $11.48 at Amazon. It would probably be entertaining to watch the teen in bed when the Sonic Boom alarm clock goes off. It purports to be painfully, horrifically loud, with wildly flashing lights, and it comes with a little thingie you put under their pillow that vibrates wildly as the alarm goes off. It even says it’s only suitable for those 14 and older. It’s $55.78 (pictured). We found a few other interesting but less sadistic alarm clocks. if you’re a kinder, gentler parent. The Neverlate Executive clock has up to 21 different alarm settings over the course of a week, including “his and hers” alarms. Get it for $60 from ThinkGeek. Chumby is very cute and a bit expensive ($180) but it will connect wirelessly with the internet and wake them with any kind of video/audio widget you choose: news on CNN, a Lil Wayne music video, The Daily Show, or even a download of their mother screaming Get Up! Get Up!  The Matrix Cube is a clock for geeky sorts, consisting of three cubes that show the hour, minute and second. Stack the cubes in whatever way you like. Also from ThinkGeek, the Matrix is $35. This one is so silly we had to toss it in. The Hotel Phone alarm clock looks like an old-fashioned black corded phone. Set the alarm and the phone ($137) rings and a voice similar to one at a hotel will politely say, “This is your wake-up call.” This must appeal to people who never travel, as hotel wake-up calls are usually as unpleasant as, well, a teenager in the morning.

When is a book a head scarf? When is a dish towel a souvenir? Not often, granted — but these cute textiles fit all the descriptions above and more. They’re humble but lovely cloths made in Japan, where you might find them worn in street festivals or hanging on the wall. In case their multi-functionality confuses Western shoppers, importers have folded them up and stitched them so the make a kind of book of fabric, each “page” highlighting a different part of the larger illustration. (To use them as originally intended, just snip the two threads that keep the sheet folded up.) While the fabric’s maker, Hamamonyo, offers a huge selection of patterns in Japan (see them at this foreign-language site), the American company Compact Impact is testing the market with only three styles, which it sells in this bundle for $15.50. More varieties featuring illustrations of pets are on their way in October, the retailer says.