Silver Earring
The act of wearing studs was a custom for Ainu people, however the Government of Meiji Japan prohibited Ainu men to wear hoops in the late-nineteenth century. Earrings were likewise ordinary among traveling Turkic clans, and luxurious ear decorations have stayed mainstream in India from chronicled times to the current day. In Western Europe, studs got stylish among English squires and refined men during the 1590s during the English Renaissance. A record distributed in 1577 by minister William Harrison, Description of England, expresses "Some vigorous retainers and courteous fellows of fortitude do wear either rings of gold, stones or pearls or sterling silver geometric earrings in their ears."[citation needed] Among mariners, a pierced ear cartilage was an image that the wearer had cruised far and wide or had crossed the equator. By the last part of the 1950s or mid 1960s, the training reappeared in the Western world. Adolescent young ladies were known to hold ear penetr...