Ear-loves!
I have developed this special spending vice on fancy earrings since I got here in South Korea, and it’s a spending predicament I find so hard to resist in a country that has long been branded as fashion freaks. Now I don’t know why I decided to throw my personal efforts to looking good straight up to my ears, but I must say that jewelries really do a great job in accentuating. Earrings are probably the only jewelry piece that anyone will see me wearing aside from a watch on my left wrist. Watches are already part of my wardrobe staples, the kind that would make feel me instantly uncomfortable not wearing. I won’t be surprised if in a matter of a while, I’ll treat earrings as such.
Korean earrings can really go bold and daring with its myriad of designs here. My, I see them everywhere and they transform me to this behemoth of an obsessive-compulsive buyer. I prefer studs than dangling earrings. I just think that pearls, crystals, and gemstones as studs look more posh, as compared to the foxy and playful effects of a dangling pair of earrings. I still own a few dangling earrings, though.
Now I went out with my CCAP friends this one afternoon and decided to give them earrings as gifts, since my two middle school student buddies even came from as far as Gangwon-do just to see me and have a tour around Seoul. I also wanted to give something back to them since they let me stay at their house in the province.
We had an early dinner at Mr. Pizza (pretty much like the famous Pizza Hut, except that it has a special leaning towards women) and presented to them my gifts, only to found out that the girls didn’t want to accept them because they have no piercing as of yet. They went on explaining that it is because their mother won’t allow them to wear earrings until they reach high school, so as not to encourage excessive physical efforts to becoming beautiful. The school also does not allow students to have piercings and wear earrings in their elementary and middle school years.
Now why does this story of “repression” (haha) suddenly make me understand more why some Korean women dress and accessorize the way that they currently do?
Korean earrings can really go bold and daring with its myriad of designs here. My, I see them everywhere and they transform me to this behemoth of an obsessive-compulsive buyer. I prefer studs than dangling earrings. I just think that pearls, crystals, and gemstones as studs look more posh, as compared to the foxy and playful effects of a dangling pair of earrings. I still own a few dangling earrings, though.
Now I went out with my CCAP friends this one afternoon and decided to give them earrings as gifts, since my two middle school student buddies even came from as far as Gangwon-do just to see me and have a tour around Seoul. I also wanted to give something back to them since they let me stay at their house in the province.
We had an early dinner at Mr. Pizza (pretty much like the famous Pizza Hut, except that it has a special leaning towards women) and presented to them my gifts, only to found out that the girls didn’t want to accept them because they have no piercing as of yet. They went on explaining that it is because their mother won’t allow them to wear earrings until they reach high school, so as not to encourage excessive physical efforts to becoming beautiful. The school also does not allow students to have piercings and wear earrings in their elementary and middle school years.
Now why does this story of “repression” (haha) suddenly make me understand more why some Korean women dress and accessorize the way that they currently do?
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