“In an era before Velcro and zippers, every man and woman needed at least dozens of these everyday just to get dressed … They were very easily lost off the body and many of them fell into the city’s River Thames, where to this day they wash up at low tide by the thousand.” – Sophie Pitman, 2013 MA Alum
Sophie Pitman (Brass Pins)
One More Thing
April 17, 2020
“In an era before Velcro and zippers, every man and woman needed at least dozens of these everyday just to get dressed … They were very easily lost off the body and many of them fell into the city’s River Thames, where to this day they wash up at low tide by the thousand.” – Sophie Pitman, 2013 MA Alum