SUFFRAGE OBJECTS: ‘VOTES FOR WOMEN’ HOOKS & EYES
In over 40 years spent hunting for and selling objects related to the women's suffrage campaign, this little box is the only example I have ever found of 'Votes for Women' Hooks and Eyes. It is a perfect 'suffrage object', hitching to a political…
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In over 40 years spent hunting for and selling objects related to the women's suffrage campaign, this little box is the only example I have ever found of 'Votes for Women' Hooks and Eyes. It is a perfect 'suffrage object', hitching to a political slogan a utility that was particularly personal to women. For how else were figure-hugging jackets, skirts or, indeed, corsets to be held together without a generous number of hooks and eyes?