Hoop Earrings - a Significant Adornment for Indian Women since Ages

Hoop earrings have been possessed for many years, by all women. In the past, it was also an important part of traditional jewelry that was seemed to be heritage from generations to generations. It was introduced in Bronze-age and promoted till silver to Gold and now to Diamond ages.

Today in 21st century, hoop earrings have a pre-eminent place in the world of Girls jewelry. Female community of all ages still admires hoop earrings and cherishes them by heart. Although, if it is a sort of any outing, any party or any function women of all ages prefer to wear them. Above it all, it has been seen to be the most selected and favored earrings by Bridal on their wedding day.

Hoop earrings have a ring shaped loop with a lock or any kind of supporting material that attached to the ear by a piercing in the earlobe or another external part of the ear. Hoop earrings generally come in the form of a hoop of metal that can be opened to pass through the ear piercing. They are often constructed of metal tubing, with a thin wire attachment penetrating the ear. The hollow tubing is permanently attached to the wire at the front of the ear, and slips into the tube at the back. The entire device is held together by tension between the wire and the tube.

Designs of Hoop earrings range from small loops and studs to large plates and dangling items. One special type of hoop earring is the sleeper earring, a circular wire normally made of gold, with a diameter of approximately one centimeter. Hinged sleepers, which were common in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, comprise two semi-circular gold wires connected via a tiny hinge at one end, and fastened via a small clasp at the other, to form a continuous hoop whose fastening mechanism is effectively invisible to the naked eye, because their small size makes them unobtrusive and comfortable. As they are normally otherwise unadorned, sleepers are so-called because they were intended to be worn at night to keep a pierced ear from closing, and were often the choice for the first set of earrings immediately following the ear piercing in the decades before ear-piercing guns using studs became commonplace, but are often a fashion choice in themselves because of their attractive simplicity and because they subtly call attention to the fact that the ear is pierced.

Other hoop designs do not complete the circle, but penetrate through the ear in a post, using the same attachment techniques that apply to stud earrings. A variation is the continuous hoop earring. In this design, the earring is constructed of a continuous piece of solid metal, which penetrates through the ear and can be rotated almost 360°. One of the ends is permanently attached to a small piece of metallic tubing or a hollow metallic bead. The other end is inserted into the tubing or bead, and is held in place by tension. The size is ultimately limited by the physical capacity of the earlobe to hold the earring without tearing. However, heavy earrings worn over extended periods of time may lead to stretching of the earlobe and the piercing.