Quote Originally Posted by neloon View Post
When I was young (the 1940s/50s), the commonest kilt pin was just a blanket pin i.e. large safety pin
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Alan
The origin of the kilt pin is supposed to be from when Queen Victoria observed a young soldier's kilt blow up and stay that way due to a high wind, exposing his nether regions, and she kindly handed him a pin to get it under control. I would think a blanket size safety pin, which I'm old enough to remember as being nearly universal myself, would both serve that purpose and commemorate the incident very nicely. The anecdote also suggests that to be completely faithful to it we should be pinning our kilts through both layers of material, but that is of course normally undesirable. As to what sort of pin Victoria may have handed the lad, obviously it could have been any sort, but personally in the midst of writing this I suddenly saw a straight lady's hat pin as being the most likely.