Hatpin Menace
Subtitle: American Women Armed and Fashionable, 1887-1920
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781476662152
Subjects: Pins and needles
Description: " Between 1887 and 1920, the humble hatpin went from an unremarkable item in every woman's wardrobe, to a fashion necessity, to a dangerous weapon. All those protruding pins threatened men everywhere. Suddenly women were armed and dangerous. The patriarchy responded with hysterical crusades and often ludicrous legislation aimed at curbing the hatpin and disarming American women"--