Wednesday, 16 January 2013
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
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.
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.
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