Keep pickpockets out of your bag with a makeshift safety pin lock. “Use a safety pin horizontally across a closed zipper of a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... These bracelets are fun and easy to make. You can randomly place the beads or create a pattern. Add a watch face to make the bracelet fashionable and ...

On April 10, 1849, a modest mechanic and independent inventor from New York named Walter Hunt quietly made history. He patented a small metal object with a spring, calling it a ‘dress pin’. That ...

For the uninitiated, safety pins and Motorcycle Clubs (MCs) don't seem like two things that go together. On the one hand, you have the tough and scruffy biker trundling down the road on his ...

The safety pin, a simple invention patented in 1849, has taken on meaning as a symbol of solidarity. The symbol of the safety pin started after the Brexit vote in the UK, as a way of showing ...

During the Paris Olympics, Brodie Kane, a podcaster from New Zealand, posted a video to Instagram, railing against safety pins. The post garnered more than 11,000 likes and 750 comments. In the video, ...

While wearing clasps has been in style since ancient Greece (brooches that fastened to togas were the mode du jour), the humble safety pin made its way into the fashion zeitgeist thanks to the ...