Quote Originally Posted by Lyle1 View Post
I think you are about twenty years behind the times in terms of what is acceptable at "black tie" events in many metropolitan areas of the United States. A man wearing an earring might turn a few heads at a formal event in the Texas Hill Country, but not so much in many other parts of the country, unless the earring was really outrageous or inappropriate.
Somehow I don't see it being that accepted at a formal event in the Lowcountry either, especially among polite society in Charleston.

T.