ear piercings in the 19th century?

[supercrook]

Setting: Sigh. Again, alternate-universe 19th century Paris. This particular character seems to hail from about the 1830s, but chronologically, we're rather... disarrayed

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[kittybacklash]

Believe me, enough people do it like that NOW. It is apparently much worse to shell out the £20.

[jillbamfette]

it's often kids who can't get their parents permission to get it done by an actual piercer... if you're under 18 (or maybe 16 in some places) you need to get a form filled out by your parents to get it done at a registered piercer.

[kittybacklash]

A trip to shitty_mods or bad_piercings will tell you that it is also quite often idiots who are too hardcore to consult a piercer.

[supercrook]

Sorry to reply to this so late. ;_; Seriously, really late.

The needle method is probably the oldest one. (And people are still doing it today, ow ow ow.) Even though my original post was crazy ambiguous, I was really aiming more for the "where would he get the material?"/"who would suggest it?" angle, but I suppose that'd be fairly intuitive.