Because safety pins, or objects designed for the same purpose, have been around for 20, 000 years. Seriously.
In prehistoric times, we used a simple pin, usually a thorn, or a fragment of bone as a fastener.
The Ancient Egyptians didn't use the safety pin or the button, but they did use long, straight pins fashioned from metal.
" Bronze pins 8 inches long have been found in Egyptian tombs, many with decorated gold heads. " Big Site Of Amazing Facts - http://www.bigsiteofamazingfacts.com/history-of-safety-pins
Each and every period of classical Greece and Rome came up with it's own form of safety pin and clasp. Would you believe it that the differences in design of the safety pin between each period is so distinct that safety pins found in an archeological dig can be used to date the whole find? In some periods the heads of the safety pins were commonly shaped as serpents, horses or lutes, whereas in other periods they took the shape of more abstract designs.
In Medieval Europe Pins for the wealthy were elaborately fashioned from Ivory, Brass, Silver and Gold, but the poor had to make do with wooden skewers.
During emergence of Punk rock in the late seventies, safety pins became associated with the genre, its followers and fashion. Some claim the look was taken originally from Richard Hell whom the British punks saw in pictures, and whose style they adopted.[4] This is disputed by a number of artists from the first wave of British punks, most notably Johnny Rotten, who insists that safety pins were originally incorporated for more practical reasons, for example, to remedy "the arse of your pants falling out".Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_pins
So as you can see, safety pins have taken a long journey through the times, and the world, and now we come to the present. Safety pins are practical, random and fun (try to work THAT one out) so thanks for reading.
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