Antique Hatpins and Hatpin Holders

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SOUZA: Versatility makes tube lures powerful tools in an angler's arsenal

My next try was using long hat pins that are hard to find and also provide very little support. The last of the home-made tube holders were simply hooks with the eye cut off. They did hold the tube, but unless I had a grip in the tube, it would begin...Read more

Falstaff; Tallis Scholars – review

Brigitte Reiffenstuel's costumes delight in tweeds, twinsets, hat pins, ruched gloves, pinched waists and big skirts. Yes, this will sound familiar to anyone who saw Richard Jones's matchless, similarly updated Glyndebourne staging, which immersed...Read more

Absinthe for elevenses, anyone?

Buying yourself a new hatpin because you feel you have been blameless for the longest time isn't it at all. What concerns me here is doing what isn't expected of us, going against the grain of ourselves and our lives for a moment, making an overblown...Read more

Hat pins candidate

Cr Paul Barber has been beaten for pre-selection in a draw from a hat. FORMER lord mayor Paul Barber lost Labor preselection for September's council election - in a draw from a hat. Shahadat Chowdhury, 47, from Toongabbie, became the Labor candidate...Read more

Hatpin a 'dark masterpiece'

The Armidale Drama and Musical Society (ADMS) have produced a dark masterpiece in their production of Australian musical The Hatpin. The musical tells the harrowing true tale of the 19th century Makin family, who took in babies whose mothers couldn't...Read more

Eroding women's right to succeed

Until women stop whipping out the hatpin to jab any other (high-achieving) women's attire/body shape, we will be titillated with catty distractions about anything but the policy, achievements, failures, the future. It is all so disappointingly...Read more

'The Queen likes to stand out,' personal milliner says

There is also a secret to why her hat has never blown off in a sharp gust of wind - a number of hat pins. Rachel added to Tatler magazine: "She has hat pins. You never see the queen holding on to her hat like other people." However, it is not difficult...Read more

Dutch dancers grace Holland-area streets for Tulip Time

Accessories such as hats must be attached with hat pins — no bobby pins allowed. Wooden shoes must appear freshly sanded. The shoes must also be plain, which meant another first-time dancer, Katy Cumberland, had to buy new wooden shoes, even though...Read more