Small excursus into the historical hairpins’ domain.

It’s hard to say who was that first man or woman wearing hairpins. All we know that this happened long ago, in B.C. times.

Hairpins were the indispensable hair decoration in ancient Egypt.

Pharaohs’ hairstyles were notable for the refinement and splendour adornments: “modest” everyday hair accessories made of gold were embellished with pearls, golden plates and pearl hair clips.

Ancient Greek women decorated their hair with different bright flowers and ribbons.

They also wore diadems made of precious metals and inlaid with jewels.

Japan samurais did use the hairpins for their hairstyles taking into consideration the fact that they could be a kind of a weapon in case they needed that.

For example, Kansasi was the Japanese woman’s stiletto in a form of the hairpin with the 7.8 in blade. Hopefully such kinds of sharp hair decorations were popular predominantly among the ninjas and samurais.

Ordinary citizens wore harmless hairpins and combs.

Renaissance Europe changed the tiny hair decorations for the massive and heavy wire frames and rings that could hold the hair.

There were plenty of hair decor things used: precious stones, ribbons, plumes, beads, tortoiseshell combs and hairpins from elephant ivory.

Nowadays, hair style fashion gives us the opportunity to use all the centuries-old hair decors as far as they add a lot to the main image completeness component. Don’t forget about it!

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1. January 11th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
   Milly Says:

   I dont know this. Tnx for posting