Hoop earrings...

[MaryAnnSingleton]

A friend once declared that she couldn't wear hoop earring because they made her look common...this,probably rather follishly,has coloured my view on them for myself - I have some pretty silver hoops with little turquoise beads twined on them which weren't cheap and from a really lovely shop - but everytime I put them on I wonder about them...what do others think, or is this a foolish thing and I should just wear the earrings ?!

I think small, tasteful hoops are ok, but I always cringe a bit when I see HUGE hoops in someone's ears.

dd1 insists on wearing them and she knows it bothers me. Partly because of the look of them, but also because I can't stop thinking about the millions of ways that she could catch them in something (they're so big) and rip her ears to shreds.

Anyway, I digress... small ones, ok, big ones not.

Wear the earrings! I only recently discovered hoop earrings myself. Never actually fancied them, always thought they were to big for my type of face. But now I love my hoop earrings.

must add, if they are a fair size they look nice, but these BIG hoop earrings - COMMON

I just found these ones, which apparently are 5.5cm from top to bottom. Now that's big!

mine are lovely but I still think mmmm... am a bit funny about jewellery anyway and hate having too much on at once however, I don't really feel up to wearing discreet pearls just yet !

squonk, I had ones like that when I was a teen, blimey that was a long time ago.

squonk, those are nice - see,I'd like them on someone else !

and did you ever rip your earlobes out, wurly?

MAS - 5.5cm tall! that's like

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this big or something

no they are still firmly intact, but I do laugh when I look at them in the shops remembering all the times that I thought i was cool but really got my jumper caught on them, or nearly forgot to take them out before going to bed or even wearing them as bangles as they were so big.

i like em

5.5 cm is not that big

from here

to here

I reckon

I have a reverse hoop snobbery, actually. I think big hoops (as long as they're slim and aren't those chunky gold H Samuel-style ones) are elegant (as long as not worn with trackie bottoms). I think small hoops say: preparing for a 'nice, tasteful' (barf emoticon) middle age.

quonk - oh,I didn't realise they were that big ! that's scary !

squonk even

Ooh that came out smaller than when I wrote it, try

here

here

wow squonky
what size is 6"

I'm wearing mine now as an experiment ...have put my hair back too

MAS as long as you like the earrings stuff what everyone else says.

oh yeah, flowery - yours was closer to 5.5cm

but mine was nearly 5.5 inches

I take it back. The ones I linked to are ok

But the ones that are 5.5 inches are too big imo

harley - everyone knows that!

6 inches is about from

here: [-to---] here

isn't it?

lol

it's what I think though, if I think they make me look common then I'm stuck ! I'd think they look lovely on someone else !

squonk!