“At Night The Long Hatpin Was Woman’s Only Defense”: 20 Everyday Items From “Back In The Day” That Doubled As Weapons For Women’s Self Defense
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Pretty much every woman out there has had the experience of being afraid while walking alone at night, watching her surroundings with her keys laced through her fingers like a set of makeshift brass knuckles. Luckily, we have access to all kinds of self-defense tools these days, including pepper spray, tasers, or even Kubatons (those little stabby keychains). Back in the 1900s, however, women didn’t really have a lot of options, so they had to get creative.
This newspaper article from the Chicago Tribune on September 16, 1900, titled “Women Armed With Favorite Weapons,” lists out all the weapons women used to defend themselves, which were found in the police records from the previous year.
