During the 1920s, dresses often had skinny straps and were worn with slips with even skinnier straps. This can lead to much frustration! One solution for this was a lingerie pin. These were pins, sometimes decorative and sometimes simple, that could be pinned into the shoulder of a dress to hold the straps. Unless I wanted to fight my straps all night, which I don't, I needed such a thing for my gala dress. I decided to put a permanent solution into my dress. Now, when I first heard about these pins years ago, I have a vague recollection of seeing a dress with them in the shoulders. However, don't take this as documentation! I'd love to see where I saw that, or another example, but I decided that I would just go ahead and make them in my dress. Mine are based on a modern dress that I own that I found right after reading about these for the first time. I was quite excited to see them in a modern dress!
