Npars01 , 22 days ago

@ElleGray

Hatpins used to be very handy self-defense implements.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hatpin-peril-terrorized-men-who-couldnt-handle-20th-century-woman-180951219/

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2017/07/07/when-men-feared-a-resolute-woman-with-a-hatpin-in-her-hand/

https://www.history.com/news/how-women-defended-themselves-against-street-gropers-100-years-ago

Teeny flamethrowers?
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/tiny-flamethrowers-and-other-things-women-have-carried-for-self-defense

jcwiii , 21 days ago

@ElleGray would go great in my beard.

uffe1974 , 22 days ago

@ElleGray Letting your hair down...

TheJen , 22 days ago

@ElleGray A well placed hairpin can take down a huge man silently in a matter of seconds. ;)

mikeolson , 22 days ago

@ElleGray 10/10 would buy

20002ist , 22 days ago

@ElleGray Or you could simply dazzle any assailant with one of these individually made pieces of jewelry—hair combs & diadems—created by his contemporary René Lalique (1860-1945).

These ridiculously beautiful items are on display at the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon.

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tito_swineflu , 22 days ago

@ElleGray The really impressive part is not getting those dangling parts tangled up in your hair while you're stabbing bad guys with the stabby part.

ElleGray OP , 22 days ago

@tito_swineflu the stabby part comes out separately

samhainnight , 22 days ago

@ElleGray Back in the Victorian era, women would use hat pins to defend themselves. I think I read somewhere that they were outlawed because of it.

GinevraCat , 22 days ago

@ElleGray Hat pins.