(02-22-2015, 04:52 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: Thanks, Laurie - that quite surprises me! Regarding my own painful experience with clips I wonder why they became popular. What are screw-back earrings?
(02-22-2015, 04:52 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: What are screw-back earrings?
Consulting Dr. Google, I found this construction - never seen before!!!
(Looks more convenient to me than clips!)
I was allowed to wear screw-back earrings and clip-ons when I became a teenager. Neither type was particularly comfortable - screw-back only slightly better. Then came the 1960s. God bless the hippies for reinventing the popularity of pierced earrings. I would never wear any other.
(02-22-2015, 05:08 PM)L Verge Wrote:
(02-22-2015, 04:52 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: Thanks, Laurie - that quite surprises me! Regarding my own painful experience with clips I wonder why they became popular. What are screw-back earrings?
(02-22-2015, 04:52 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: What are screw-back earrings?
Consulting Dr. Google, I found this construction - never seen before!!!
(Looks more convenient to me than clips!)
I was allowed to wear screw-back earrings and clip-ons when I became a teenager. Neither type was particularly comfortable - screw-back only slightly better. Then came the 1960s. God bless the hippies for reinventing the popularity of pierced earrings. I would never wear any other.
Did you know that ancient mariners wore pierced earrings because they thought it improved their eyesight? Or that, if their body washed up on shore, the earring(s) would pay for a good Christian burial?