A seemingly simple hole on a safety pin, a century-old design, reveals ingenious engineering. This looped termination, born ...

From the edgy street style of Seoul to the luxurious runways of Paris, how did the humble safety pin become the chicest thing to clasp around your neck in 2025? We choose to call it fashion’s latest ...

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, ...

If there’s isn’t a board game where everyday objects are described and then guessed there should be. In 1849 US mechanic Walter Hunt (1796-1859) filed patent 6,281 for “a pin made of one piece of wire ...