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These include the tragus piercing, antitragus piercing, rook piercing, industrial piercing, helix piercing, orbital piercing, daith piercing, and conch piercing. In addition, earlobe stretching , while common in indigenous cultures for thousands of years, began to appear in Western society in the 1990s, and is now fairly common.
Mummified bodies with pierced ears have been discovered, including the oldest mummified body discovered to date, the 5,300-year-old Ötzi the Iceman, which was found in a glacier in Italy. [5] The mummy had an ear piercing 7–11 mm (0.28–0.43 in) in diameter. [5] The oldest earrings found in a grave date to 2500 BCE.
In 1961, Rowland Schaefer founded Fashion Tress Industries, a company that sold wigs and became the world's largest retailer for fashion wigs. [7] In 1973, Fashion Tress acquired Claire's, a 25-store jewelry chain, and began shifting its focus towards a line of fashion jewelry and accessories under the new name, Claire's Accessories, Inc. [7] Claire's Accessories began providing ear piercing ...
It is, compared to pierced ears, a relatively new practice, introduced in the very early 20th century (piercings by contrast go back at least 5,000 years). Somehow, during the 19th century ...
They were clip-on earrings because Washington didn’t have pierced ears. When Macrinus is in the suburban colosseum with the baboons, his outfit is subtle and majestic. Once he goes to Rome, he ...
But for Hammack, who was born in Mexico City, Mexico, piercing her daughter's ears had an important cultural significance. In Latin cultures, she explains, infant female ear piercing is routine.
The risk of an ear piercing becoming infected is the highest during warm weather and shortly after the piercing has taken place. Case studies show that normal ear piercing infections may develop into serious infections caused by Pseudomonas and Staphylococcus , which are reported at rates of 10–30%. [ 14 ]
Industrial piercings first appeared in the early 1990s when they were first invented by Erik Dakota along with the Daith piercing and Rook piercing. [1] The first reference to the industrial piercing was in a 1992 edition of Body Play magazine, which referred to this piercing as the “industrial ear project."