"No! she may not go out wearing nose or ear-rings, or go out with a needle which has no eye."
Is this halacha? Without an eruv, can a woman walk out with ear-rings? Thanks.
On Daf 64b Tosefos brings several Sevaras to explain why in post-Gemora
times the prohibition of wearing Jewellery was not maintained. The Shulchan Aruch O.C. 303 #18 Quotes all these opinions as Halacha. (See below, for a copy of our Insights on this matter.)
Regarding earrings specifically, the Halacha (ibid #8) is that they are
Mutar even according to the original Din of the Gemora. This is because in
order to take off her earrings a woman must remove part of her head
covering which she would not do in public. The Rema adds that if her head
covering is so arranged that she cold remove her earings without uncovering
her hair, then it would be forbidden to wear earrings.
Ilan Segal