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Language: English
Published by Shire, 2008
- Softcover
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- Title
- Hat Pins (Shire Library)
- Author
- E. Eckstein
- Publisher
- Shire
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0747801827
- ISBN 13
- 9780747801825
- Illustrator
- Firkins, J.
- Item weight
- 0.1 pounds
Hats replaced bonnets as headgear for women around the 1890s and hat pins were needed to secure the hats firmly; they were essential for the larger hats worn around 1910–12. The hat-pin industry expanded rapidly, producing pins of many materials, styles and qualities. Hat pins were necessary for everyday wear as well as for sports and motoring. Suffragettes used them as offensive weapons and were not allowed to wear them when they appeared in court. By-laws prohibited hat pins from being worn with protruding unprotected points and contemporary cartoons poked fun at their use.
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About the Author
Eve Eckstein collected hat pins for over twenty years and gathered knowledge of hat pins and their place in social history.
June Firkins has been actively engaged in the antiques trade since the 1970s. She has given lectures and demonstrations on various aspects of social history.
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