| We like to decorate our ears. Try to forget | | | | ears fell out of favor during the Middle |
| that you had your ears pierced in a mall just | | | | Ages. It was considered immoral for |
| as soon as you could talk your mother into | | | | respectable married women to be seen in |
| letting you do it. Try to forget that you | | | | public with their heads uncovered. Then in |
| have given away as gifts more earrings than | | | | the mid-1500's women began wearing their hair |
| there are margaritas in Cabo. Consider from | | | | up, exposing their ears. Earrings |
| the perspective of an alien visiting our | | | | resurged.Today earrings thrive with as many |
| planet for the first time:"They decorate | | | | different variations as there are people |
| their auditory recepticals with small bits of | | | | wearing them. We wear danglies of all sorts, |
| shiny metal and colorful rocks."In our | | | | hoops and posts and spirals and swirlies, |
| fast-paced modern cultures our ears provide | | | | made from all kinds of materials including |
| one of the easiest and most prominent body | | | | silver and gold and sea shells, pearls and |
| parts to adorn. We express ourselves, our | | | | gems and glass beads. We wear earrings as |
| moods, our attitudes through the jewelry we | | | | art.By Serene Chong, Eleworth |
| afix to our ears.Earrings have been around | | | | |
| forever. Well, ok, as near as we can tell, a | | | | By Topher ZiCornell, EleworthEleworth offers |
| really really long time. The oldest known | | | | an increasingly wide selection of artistic, |
| earrings are the Lunate earrings. The Lunate | | | | hand-made earrings.When Serene isn't busy |
| earrings were excavated in Ur in Mesopotamia, | | | | with coursework for her computer science |
| what is now Iraq (of all places). These gold | | | | master's degree, she's busy daydreaming about |
| crescent hoops are approximately 4,500 years | | | | her next meal. As a Chinese-Malaysian in |
| old. The earliest designs of earrings were | | | | California, she loves to try new foods, and |
| hoops and pendants made of precious metals, | | | | equally loves to try new jewelry. Serene is |
| most commonly gold, and sometimes bone.The | | | | always looking for new ways to express |
| popularity of earrings rose and fell | | | | cuteness, and jewelry is one of her favorite |
| throughout the ages in direct relation to | | | | things to play with. |
| hairstyles. For example, the adornment of our | | | | |