Hello! Is this thing on? I know it's been a long while since I've posted. I'm back in the States, working at a wonderful new fully remote job where I get to do research all day!
I thought to post because I came across yet another "Medieval Myth" today that bugged me. Someone said that they didn't have bobby pins in the middle ages and they always did hair taping.
Now, hair taping was a thing but it was not the only thing going on. There is more than enough archeological evidence for hairpins. Here are just some of the examples we have:
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| V & A Museum, C. 900's-1200's |
That's pretty clearly a hairpin as we would know them today but here's some more.
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| V & A c. 960-1279 |
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| V & A c. 960-1279 |
Basically, we have plenty of extant evidence for hairpins. While these are all medieval and I haven't seen any in the 15th or 16th C, I also haven't researched more than 10 minutes on this. I just knew it was wrong. :-)
