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So now we're going to talk about punk jewelery. Now the biggest most popular thing in punk
jewelery is heavy silver and black jewelery. Here I've got a bracelet that has spikes on
it which is another big jewelery trend. You can also see it's a black leather cuff and
silver jewelery. You don't really see gold jewelery or really any stones. It's all silver
and black to sort of go with the metal and hardware of some other things. You might see
something like this through someone's ear, or you might see a gaged hole which is where
you take a normal hole, you can see the size of mine, and you slowly put in larger and
larger earrings until the hole might be like an inch across. In addition piercings are
incredibly popular in punk fashion as is the use of everyday objects as jewelery. We're
going to talk about it later with clothing how everyday objects can be used as pieces
clothing, but for example you can see that rather than use the buttons on this shirt
I've safety pinned it together. The use of the safety pin is probably another sort of
symbol of punk, but the idea that a safety pin might be through someone's ear or through
a piercing or there might be a necklace of safety pins or something like that. Using
an everyday object and making it jewelery was another way that the punks sort of were
anti-consumer as they made fun of the idea of spending on things like jewelery.