On the afternoon of May 28, 1903, Leoti Blaker, a young Kansan touring New York City, boarded a Fifth Avenue stagecoach at 23 rd Street and settled in for the ride. The coach was crowded, and when it ...

At the turn of the 20th century, women’s style was all big hair and big hats. And to keep those big hats on that big hair, dames needed big hatpins—giant needles up to 12 inches long. Headwear wasn’t ...

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A hatpin isn’t an accessory that many women encounter nowadays. Probably because, hats aren’t a daily wardrobe occurrence for us anymore. Back in the day – as in back in the early 1900s – the hatpin ...