with inconclusive results. (A 1995 study, “Why Do Old Men Have Big Ears,” excluded women, but the phenomenon of stretched-out tissues happens pretty much equally for all.) So far, it seems ...

Then there are the effects of time. Frida, I, too spent the ’80s and ’90s dwarfed by giant earrings, and there really is no nice way of saying that now the holes are stretched out lengthwise and the ...