My view


From the research conducted within this study, that had as its main theme the subject "safety pin", I realized some thoughts that I will share with the reader in this text.

Firstly, I realized that there are some objects that we use in daily, that easily the accomplishment of tasks so simple that we didn’t realize the difficulty of our life if such objects had never existed. It's these little inventions that came in to facilitate our life . It is possible that the value of each object in life is not so significant and possibly we could live without them, but surely each of the small objects that surround our lives, some more than others, make a difference in how we live and how we behave.

The subject on which I focused my research is a great example of the importance of small inventions have in our lives and how the value we attach to them changes over time and from one culture to another. In ancient times, centuries before Christ, the safety pin, or rather his ancestor the “fibula” had importance in dress and was an important accessory to Etruscans, Greeks and many other peoples of the Mediterranean. However nowadays this object hasn’t the same importance it had in ancient times but still has an important role in the world of clothing and fashion, if we consider that this object in a few decades was the main way to hold diapers of babies, and that today would be a treat to find someone who still use this technique, we realize this alternation of the importance we attach to objects.

Yet this thing, was not always used with the same single objective and hence provides thousands of variations depending on the purpose for which it is used, and perhaps for this reason been improved and modified over time. Fortunately it is so, that there is this diversity so that the same object can thus be adapted to different people and different purposes.