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Post by booboobrewer on Aug 11, 2007 9:51:01 GMT -5
I think they're allowed to wear studs or small hoops...
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Post by sotypical42483 on Aug 11, 2007 15:28:44 GMT -5
I agree with you, lila. I never knew anyone that thought getting their ears pierced was such a huge deal and likewise, didn't know of any parents who forbade it.
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Post by aln1982 on Aug 11, 2007 16:22:23 GMT -5
Thanks, booboo. Agree sotypical and lila about not knowing anyone to make such a big deal out of it. (The only reason it was a big deal for me is because it took me like a year to get the courage to have it done since I was scared it would hurt - I'm a wimp when it comes to pain in things like my earlobes but don't think it really did hurt.) That never made sense to me but I guess maybe Mal and Jessi saw having pierced ears as a symbol of being grown up. I don't see it like that but I suppose someone could.
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Post by dawnomite on Aug 11, 2007 20:23:43 GMT -5
I agree with you, lila. I never knew anyone that thought getting their ears pierced was such a huge deal and likewise, didn't know of any parents who forbade it. Mine did. They said I had to wait until I was 16. It was horrible. By the time I was 7 I was the only girl I knew without them. When I was 11 ( of course) I cried so hard about it that I had a horrible asthma attack and had to be sent to the emergency room. And then my parents (who weren't ones to give in to crying and begging normally) finally let me get them pierced. My little sister then of course, got hers pierced when she was 11 without having to do anything. I could wear whatever earrings I wanted though. I still can't understand why my parents where so against it really. My mom doesn't have hers pierced but everyone else in her family does. No woman in my dad's family until me had ever had her ears pierced believe it or not, definitely not for religious reasons or anything, they just weren't really into it. Anyway, I could TOTALLY relate to Mal, and when I read about her parents giving in, I couldn't stand it because I didn't think mine ever would. But then I finally turned 11. And life was a picnic.
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Post by Kylie90210 on Aug 12, 2007 21:30:38 GMT -5
Hahaha, good one Dawnomite! I'm gonna peirce my daughter's (if I have one!) ears when they are little, so they don't remember it, my mum did that and I'm grateful! I wear long dangly earrings each day and my lobes are fine. I take them off at home though. Today I'm wearing long silver ones that reach past my collar bone.
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Post by wanderingfrog on Aug 12, 2007 22:36:41 GMT -5
I agree with you, lila. I never knew anyone that thought getting their ears pierced was such a huge deal and likewise, didn't know of any parents who forbade it. Same here> I got mine pierced when I was nine because I didn't want to until then, but I would have been allowed to years before that if I'd wanted to. They've never grown over, but I almost never wear earrings, simply because I'm too lazy to pick out earrings to wear in the morning. Heck, it's enough of a pain to put on pants every day. ;D
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Post by aln1982 on Aug 12, 2007 23:04:34 GMT -5
^ I feel the same way about both things, wanderingfrog ;D Kylie, my ears hurt just thinking of your earrings but they sound interesting ;D Another reason I never wore any kind of big earrings is because they would get in my way when I rode my horses. The bigger ones (just little silver circles that barely covered my whole earlobe) I wore when I showed were uncomfortable enough. Does Jessi take her earrings out at dance class? I know she mentioned that they aren't supposed to wear jewelry and I wondered if very tiny earrings like I wear counted as that.
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Post by lilafowler on Aug 14, 2007 7:35:55 GMT -5
I always wore my earrings during ballet classes, but I had to take off necklaces or bracelets.
ETA: I didn't wear very large earrings, though; never anything that went farther than just past my earlobe.
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Post by aln1982 on Aug 14, 2007 16:51:49 GMT -5
^ Thanks. I figured really tiny ones would be okay. Maybe that's why I can only picture Jessi in those. Another point, in Trouble With Twins, Mrs. Pike tells Mal (joking with her) that she has to promise to wear something more than just little gold balls if she gets her ears pierced so maybe she did and it was just never described. With a statement like that, I'm not sure why the ear piercing was such a big deal.
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Post by fluffycakes on Aug 14, 2007 19:46:29 GMT -5
I think it's bizarre the Pikes and Ramseys were strict about the earrings the girls are allowed to wear. Unless it's something really offensive, I can't really see why it'd be a big deal if they wanted to wear cute earrings...or maybe, sparkly ones!
I have a somewhat amusing earring story for you guys. I was shopping for some new earrings the other day, just because I got them pierced a few months back and wanted to change my earrings for the first time. (Yes, it took me until my 20s to want to have pierced ears. The BSC, excluding Kristy and Mary Anne, would be outraged.) Anyway, I saw a pair of earrings that made me laugh: one was a monkey and the other was a banana. It was totally something Claudia would've worn!
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Post by wanderingfrog on Aug 14, 2007 22:34:37 GMT -5
I think Claudia's got a pair of earrings that are a dog and a bone, doesn't she? Does anybody remember?
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Post by aln1982 on Aug 14, 2007 23:08:53 GMT -5
^ Don't remember those but just read that she had a keyboard and record. She seems to like those kinds of combinations of two related but different objects ;D Claud's earrings always sound so.... intersting (not to mention painful ;D)
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Post by fluffycakes on Aug 15, 2007 21:22:50 GMT -5
I totally remember the dog and the bone earrings. That's what I was thinking of when I saw the monkey and banana pair!
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Post by courtky10 on Jun 16, 2008 18:37:43 GMT -5
Didn't she have one pair of earrings where one was an easel and the other was a paint brush?
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Post by lionessblack on Jun 16, 2008 20:44:09 GMT -5
I owned a pair of earring that one was a bowling ball, and the other were a couple of pins. I bought them specifically because I thought they were Claudia-like. I actually think I still have them somewhere.
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