Aggghhh, those earlobes!

I had my ears pierced in high school. I didn't often wear earrings mostly because I couldn't afford them.

I remember my grandmother and her 2 sisters, my great aunts. Born in 1883, 1889, and 1891. They all lived to be nearly 100. By the time I was a grown up they were all very very old Victorain ladies, and their earlobes! Ugh. They had spent their entire lives wearing large heavy pierced earrings. Their earlobes were so stretched and saggy they hung nearly to the shoulders. I remember thinking how terrible and ugly it looked. And I haven't worn a pair of earrings in 25 or 30 since.

I may have other wrinkly pendulous features but ears like that? I refuse. I may have big feet but my ears, thank goodness, are still cute.