{"id":2080,"date":"2009-03-27T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T18:56:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-12-11T14:50:03","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T18:50:03","slug":"rock-s-unfulfilled-fashion-ideas-jewelry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-s-unfulfilled-fashion-ideas-jewelry\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock\u2019s Unfulfilled Fashion Ideas: Jewelry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There was a ’60s party band called The Swingin’ Medallions, a great name says this medallion lover, but a quick search turned up no photos of them wearing medallions. Other “Goatee Rock” bands of the second half of the ’60s surely wore medallions, but rock ‘n roll and medallions were never as closely related as I would argue they should have been. Urge\/Overkill<\/strong> wore medallions, but similarly they never caught on as part of rock fashion in the early ’90s.<\/p>\n

Rock fans have long been ready to adopt the Look of a favorite rock star, and rock ‘n roll artists have a long history of dressing up for both the stage and photo\/video shoots. However, for all the influence rockers have had on fans in the areas of hairstyles, clothing, and makeup, I believe there is a dearth of rockers who can make a claim for inspiring any fashion trends around jewelry.<\/p>\n

Think of rock ‘n roll and jewelry, and who’s the first rock artist that comes to mind? I asked a couple of colleagues in the Halls of Rock before drafting this piece, and one suggested this guy.
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After he said this, I immediately knew that Ringo’s nickname came from his pre-fame prediliction for wearing rings, but by the time The Beatles hit and his nickname had transcended its derivation, did anyone think of Ringo as a trend-setter for ring wearing? Maybe so, but as a boy drooling over any image of the Fab Four that I could get my eyes on, I never thought I should start wearing multiple rings the way I dreamed of growing cool facial hair and wearing orange velvet bellbottoms and paisley shirts with Nehru collars.<\/p>\n

As I pondered this subject the first rocker that came to mind was this guy:<\/p>\n

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Keith Richards<\/strong>‘ skull rings and pirate earrings have influenced a number of rockers and rock fans beside Johnny Depp. But past Keef, who are the most influential bejeweled artists in rock?<\/p>\n

I next thought of Stevie Nicks<\/strong>, whom I’ve always associated with feathered roach clip earrings, as worn by countless stoner girls in the ’70s. However, a search of about 300 photos of Stevie on the Web turned up exactly 0 shots of her wearing feathered roach clip earrings. Lots of lace wraps and some flowers in her hair, but maybe she wasn’t an influential, bejeweled rocker after all, just a favorite artist of a certain breed of bejeweled ’70s girls.<\/p>\n

Madonna<\/strong> introduced our culture to the wearing of multiple rubber bracelets, those things that look like ring washers. Today they’ve morphed into LiveStrong bracelets. Although not much of a rocker, Madge was very influential in the spread of jewelry trends through music.<\/p>\n

Perhaps one of the reasons jewelry has never played much of a role in rock, I thought, was that rock has usually been a male-dominated form of entertainment and art, and until the advent of punk rock-influenced piercings, jewelry was taboo for dudes. Hell, Little Richard<\/strong> wore makeup and a bouffant hairdo, yet even he went low-key on the bling. Punk rockers and their piercings and safety pins have to be given credit for finally introducing jewelry into rock culture, and rappers busted down the doors in that scene once and for all with the status signifying bling that Little Richard was too shy to bust out.<\/p>\n

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Even among punk rockers, however, who really took the lead in wearing jewelry? Richard Hell<\/strong> and then Sid Vicious<\/strong> and his Malcolm McLaren bondage shop buddies, like Siouxsie Sioux<\/strong>, incorporated safety pins as a kind of rebel broche, but did they go as far as leading the way to multiple piercings? What rockers first made piercings a key part of their Look, those Throbbing Gristle<\/strong> types?<\/p>\n

Am I missing anyone or any type of jewelry? Were there influential wearers of beads, bangles, or even hair pins that I have not recognized? As always, in these style pieces, I’m sure I’ve made some embarrassing oversight, but let me know what you think. Is jewelry among rock’s unfulfilled fashion ideas?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Medallions not included. There was a ’60s party band called The Swingin’ Medallions, a great name says this medallion lover, but a quick search turned up no photos of them wearing medallions. Other “Goatee Rock” bands of the second half of the ’60s surely wore medallions, but rock ‘n roll and medallions were never as […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342,344],"tags":[77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}