Posted 3 years ago
robbieelle
(6 items)
The colors on these cards are really bright considering their age , these along with many hair accessories were donated to me by the children of a local hairdresser that passed away earlier this year. The woman was 92 years old and had owned a beauty salon for many years before retiring in 1990.
If These Shirts Could Talk: The Tantalizing Tales Behind Used Clothes
Jockeying for Position: How Boxers and Briefs Got Into Men's Pants
Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes
In the Hot Seat: Is Your Antique Windsor a Fake?
Bizarro Beauty Products, from 1889 to Now
Love at First Kite: How Pizza and Pente Led to One Oklahoman's High-Flying Obsession
Pin-Up Queens: Three Female Artists Who Shaped the American Dream Girl
Say Ahhh: An Oral Surgeon's Quest to Reimagine the Garage-Band Guitar
Tokens for Sweethearts, in Times of War
American Picker Dream, Part I: Mike Wolfe On His Love Affair With Bikes

Why were they called bob pins, anyway? And how did that get changed into Bobby pins?
according to the online etymology dictionary bob is "short hair" and "bobby" is a diminuitive form. Add "pin" for an associated word.