When I was a child, over 60 years ago, most women did not have pierced ears. At that time, where I lived in Chicago, anyway, it was considered something from a “foreign culture”. Women wore clip on and/or screw back earrings. I think it was the ’70s when ads started appearing in newspapers for free ear piercing when you bought a pair of earrings at a local store. All of a sudden it was the fashionable thing to do. All my friends and coworkers had it done and our daughters begged until we said yes, which was when they were in high school.
My husband never liked the idea of “putting holes in your body”, as he remarked and preferred that I didn’t get my ears pierced. At the time, it made no difference to me, so, to please him, I didn’t have that done. If I had known how extremely popular pierced ears and earrings would become, I would have had that procedure performed on me because soon it was almost impossible, as it still is, to find earrings for non pierced ears. I know a couple websites that sell them and often I buy clip on earring findings at a craft store, and change the pierced ones to clip, when possible. One never knows what the future will bring.
When I was a child, over 60 years ago, most women did not have pierced ears. At that time, where I lived in Chicago, anyway, it was considered something from a “foreign culture”. Women wore clip on and/or screw back earrings. I think it was the ’70s when ads started appearing in newspapers for free ear piercing when you bought a pair of earrings at a local store. All of a sudden it was the fashionable thing to do. All my friends and coworkers had it done and our daughters begged until we said yes, which was when they were in high school.
My husband never liked the idea of “putting holes in your body”, as he remarked and preferred that I didn’t get my ears pierced. At the time, it made no difference to me, so, to please him, I didn’t have that done. If I had known how extremely popular pierced ears and earrings would become, I would have had that procedure performed on me because soon it was almost impossible, as it still is, to find earrings for non pierced ears. I know a couple websites that sell them and often I buy clip on earring findings at a craft store, and change the pierced ones to clip, when possible. One never knows what the future will bring.