Young girls are – among other things – idealists. They care about Nature, about the Future of the Planet, about the Environmental Movement. They also want to be attractive and have fun.
What about this: what about persuading them to wear in their ears – not the usual costume jewelry, however well designed and ingenious – but the alluring products of Mother Earth herself. Now, in the fall, carefully chosen autumn leaves. In the winter – who knows? – Nature is bountiful. So is the female imagination.
All that is needed is simple hooks to wear as earrings. They would hold whatever Nature supplied as decoration. The price of the hooks would, of course, have to include a well-deserved profit for the originator of this idea and his manager, plus the cost of protecting their proprietary rights – unless it’s already too late! – and of marketing it.
What do you think?
Eric Koch’s book, The Weimar Triangle, is available at Indigo-Chapters and in your local bookstore. 
Yes, a concept whose time has come!
http://www.funis2cool.com/cool/grass-jewelry.html
The idea doesn’t go far enough. Why not also nose rings?
Earrings, necklaces, bracelets, rings, anklets for centuries have showcased elements of nature. They’re usually selected to be naturally durable – bugs in amber, feathers, stones, shells, bark, reeds, twigs, porcupine needles, bones, teeth and claws, horns and antlers. Or nature mimicked in durable materials. Or real elements treated to be durable – leaves (metal-plated), anything encased in acrylic.
For eons aboriginal cultures, and children, youth and heroes of all cultures have used more ephemeral collections from nature for personal adornment – daisy-chain couronnes, laurel wreaths. Not too much opportunity for intellectual property in the general idea, perhaps.
The beckoning marketable niche?
• Elegant, inexpensive body bases for all these places of adornment, that have clever, simple, reliable attachment holders for elements of nature, like leaves, grasses, feathers, eggshell,
• to be attached, without treatment, for 2 to 4 days, or as long as their passing beauty lasts, and then discarded for something new of the season,
• with packaging, guidelines and nature explication that appeal to urban taste, offering the individual panache of presenting the wearer’s adventurous capture – exquisite or fun – from an excursion into real natural discoveries and wonders.