Getting your ears pierced at Claire’s is almost a rite of passage for adults of a certain vintage. Your mother either brought you to Claire’s to get it done, or your mother yelled at you after you ...

Some parents abide by cultural customs and piece their child's ear when their still a baby. Others find the act to be nonconsensual and wrong, waiting until the child themself expresses a desire to ...

If you bloomed into tweenhood in the 1990s and wanted your ears pierced, you probably had it done by a bored college kid at your local Claire’s. Until recently, the old-school mall chain has seemingly ...

The viral video has close to half a million views. In it, mother of two Hannah (@shesworthafortune) says she was “mom-shamed” at Claire’s. Hannah says she was getting her daughter’s ears pierced, and ...

Claire's — the ear-piercing, glittery tween mall staple — is once again on the brink of survival. The chain on Wednesday filed for bankruptcy protection for the second time in seven years. It is ...

NEW YORK -- Claire's, the mall chain that has pierced the ears of millions of teens, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company said Monday that its stores will remain open as it ...

Several Claire's, the purple storefronts that pierced a generation of tweens' ears and sold rhinestone chokers we once swore were classy, have started to vanish from Kansas City. The big picture: More ...