Alpin and Safety pin are two brothers. Alpin just stung. And the safety pin? If you are a man, I ask, what would you do with a safety pin? Just think once you sit down. And if she is a woman, there is no need to question her. Why not? Because, women use safety pin more than men and that is the need of fashion.
Safety pin is a very trivial matter for ordinary people like us.
But in the case of fashion, safety pin is not a trivial matter. You will notice
that the safety pin is used very effectively to attach the sari with the blouse
and the veil with the shirt. Remember? But it has been used by women for a long
time. The reason I say ancient is that the safety pin we see now was first
patented in 1849, in America. The patent was taken by Walter Hunt, a famous
mechanic of that time. Safety pin is 171 years old! And the funny thing is, the
original name of the safety pin is 'dress pin'. This means that the cloth was
attached with this pin.
Pinning clothes is not a new
phenomenon. It is thought to have originated in Central Europe during the
Middle Bronze Age (1950-1540 BC). After that, the clothes pin has gone through
various changes. In continuation of this we have got modern safety pin, it is
also for stopping clothes.
Now that all-in-one diapers
are seen, mainly for baby use, such diapers were used in America and Europe in
the nineteenth century. Their common name was flat. Diapers, the predecessors
of this flat or the current all-in-one diaper, were pinned together. Safety pin
has been in operation since the middle of the nineteenth century, i.e. since
1849. Besides, it was used to stop clothes. In America or Europe, especially
women's clothing in the eighteenth or nineteenth century, something like a pin
was needed. She fills the space with a safety pin.
However, the safety pin became
an icon of the fashion world much later. It can be said that in the nineteen
seventies. Punk rock artists of that time contributed a lot behind this. Many
punk rock artists used safety pins specifically for fashion. They have also
used safety pins in various posters. When it comes to punk rock and safety pin,
the famous band of the seventies of the twentieth century, 'Sex Pistol'.
Perhaps this band has established Safety Pin in the world of fashion.
The song of this British punk
rock band is called 'God Save the Queen'. As can be seen here, vocalist Johnny
Rotten is wearing a shirt with many safety pins. No one from the punk rock band
has been seen using a safety pin before. Since then, many believe that safety
pins have become widely used among the artists of the punk rock music genre.
However, before that, in the seventies, British fashion designer Vivian
Westwood used safety pins in her designed clothes, especially in T-shirts. In
the seventies, fashion designers like Jandra Rhodes and Judy Blame also used
safety pins in their clothes and jewelry.
This trend continued in the
world fashion world till the nineteen nineties. Fashion designers like Stephen
Sprouse or Jean-Paul Galtier and world-renowned actresses like Elizabeth Harle
have immortalized the safety pin in the world of fashion. It goes without
saying that the trend is still going on. Famous fashion designers like
Balenciaga, Vineet and Sonia Rykiel brought Safety pin back to the glittering
stage of fashion in the 2016-17 fall clothing collection.
Needless to say, Safety Pin
became important among the general public before it came to the colorful world
of the world fashion stage for its practical reasons. As I said at the
beginning, it is not only Europe or America or not only slender models with
shiny looks, ordinary women in our country are using safety pin every day.
Butterflies made of different metals, bees or safety pin attached to different
flowers were once used in children's fashion in our country. Yes, they were
imitations of current fashion in the fashion world. But its importance in the
current fashion world of our common man was immense.
However, I was saying that
Safety Pin is a strange addition to the fashion world. Her presence in the
fashion world has become very loud in the house of common people. A very
special instrument that has become a fashion icon of a music genre like punk
rock can be heard in various writings. It is known that Homer wrote about the
pin used in cloth in his epic Odyssey, the color of which was gold, the current
form of that pin is safety pin. Even in the 1930s, the golden safety pin was a
symbol of nobility in Europe. So from fashion to spiritual thought, as well as
usability to use, how much more safety pin will play in the future, it cannot be
said right now.
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