You'll never look at a humble safety pin the same way again “These things are so great and have so many uses in so many areas that I don’t even have to market them. Customers just find me,” says Larry ...

Two winters ago, a shopkeeper on Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue caught my eye with her outfit. She was wearing a chunky knit black cardigan held together with a giant safety pin. It snaked through the ...

The safety pin is a small domestic object that appears settled and complete, yet it carries a design feature that invites repeated questions. The circular hole at the end of the clasped arm has ...

My mother, with her carefully trained eye, always knew when I had lost a button on my school uniform. She would rummage around her bag and produce a safety pin, fastening my blouse gently with it, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While wearing clasps has been in style since ancient Greece (brooches that fastened to togas were the mode du jour), the humble ...

“These things are so great and have so many uses in so many areas that I don’t even have to market them. Customers just find me,” says Larry Schwartz, who’s been in the safety-pin business for more ...

While wearing clasps has been in style since ancient Greece (brooches that fastened to togas were the mode du jour), the humble safety pin made its way into the fashion zeitgeist thanks to the ...