Stand Back, I Have a Hatpin!
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- Опубликовано: 20 дек 2020
- What is a respectable-ish vaguely Edwardian woman to do when confronted by muggers, mashers, brigands, ne'er-do-wells, or outright baddies? Why, pull out her trusty hatpin, of course!
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I hope the CosTubers and history buffs among you (especially those who made suggestions on the community post) enjoyed the exploding historical accuracy meter 😁
10/10 historically accurate hatpin wisdom! 😎
How long has your channel icon has a sword, and how have I only just noticed it?
@@qwertyTRiG I preferred the cartoon Jill - merch of which I would totes buy.
@@bernadettebanner 3 words: "SOMEWHERE IN TIME". More words: The setting is in your realm of expertise to accurately assess historical accuracy AND it is one of my favorite movies. (smiles sweetly - bats eyelashes)
I'd really like to see a remake of "Suffragette" but with more of a focus on the martial arts than the courtroom drama.
These are all well and good for muggers, mashers, brigands, ne'er-do-wells, or outright baddies, but how on earth are you going to cope if you should cross paths with a rapscallion?
Mayhaps a swift kick to the shins, yes?
_Exterminate_ the rapscallion!
This is one of the better comments I've read on RUclips
I also feel there may be a gap in the market for footpad deterrents
While this is a concern, most vegetables in the onion family prefer country to hip hop, so the issue rarely arises.
“Are YOU a respectable Edwardian woman”
Finally, someone noticed 😭
Short and to the point.
I see...what you did there. 😁
So accurate c:
Well done... but also BOOOO!
It is a good day today, they beat me to the pun.
@@ChevronTango :O
Mary Poppins, The Revenge
"Just a hat full of needles makes the baddies go dowwwnnn! Baddies go downnn, down to the ground!"
Lol
A spoonful of stabbing helps the masher go down.
A super callous hatpin chic is poking extra holeses,
Oh the very sound of this is really quite atrocious!
Would have made for a better sequel by far.
Did you know that Men got annoyed at women using hatpins to protect themselves and tried to get it banned? And they called the those women Petticoated Swashbucklers lol
two questions,
1) How is "Petticoated Swashbucklers" not a video game?
2) how much money do I need to give you to make one?
@@coolgreenbug7551 Can you imagine? A girl gang who live like respectable young ladies by morning and by night become vengeful vigilantes? Their weapon inventory MUST include hatpins and super sharp fans and daggers and what not, and they hunt down criminals and beat up abusers and harassers and kill murderers? Oh the possibilities! I'd sell my soul for a tv series/video game/book like that!
And you know, no one really knows why Jack the Ripper suddenly stopped killing....
Ohhh, the possibilities....!
I'd say that's surprising since you'd think they'd *want* women to be able to defend themselves... but it's really, really not.
@@victoriat8922 I mean how are they supposed to be heroes (or attack them when they want to) if the women can defend themselves?
Imagine being smart and quick enough to use a hatpin to defend yourself against a mugger/masher/brigand/ne'er-do-well/outright bad guy/whatever other name people in the UK have for criminals and getting arrested together with him/her because your hatpins have an illegal length...the trip back to the police station would be, at the very least, kinda weird.
I feel like this should be an AU fanfic that exists somewhere. :D
Me too
@@JillBearup Bonus points if the 'mugger' was trying to return the purse the lady had accidentally left at the dining establishment.
Extra bonus points if it's an 'enemies to friends to lovers', with the arrest becoming a running inside joke. 🤣
Even though I rarely have occasion to worry about fighting in a dress or hatpin-wielding (rarely not being the same as never, life takes us in all sorts of unexpected directions) I'm really enjoying these shorts.
Also, as an American, discovering people can bring loaded firearms into a sandwich shop, but there are restrictions on the size of hatpins... well, that doesn't surprise me at all.
The hatpin laws were a thing 100 years ago.
@@daniel-zh9nj6yn6y I wonder how many places just never got around to repealing them and still have them on the books.
@@mattdeblassmusic kind of like those hotels in Nevada with signs that say no horses above the first floor . . .
@@tatharelprincessoferegion8162 I remember my joyous laughter when I discovered that my hometown of Toronto still has a law that forbids dragging a dead horse down a main street on Sundays!
I still wonder what would happen if someone tried...
@@tatharelprincessoferegion8162 BoJack Horseman thinks that's racist.
People who use pins in combat are called "Poke-ee-man"
🍅 , but I’m amicably handing it to you, not weaponizing it
@@snakesnoteyes Then you are not in combat. You are gift giving.
@@erictaylor5462 would you rather I throw 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅?
@@snakesnoteyes By definition, if you are amical, you are not in combat.
Amical is the opposite of fighting.
@@erictaylor5462 congrats on turning a round about compliment on your pun into a level of pedantry I actively regret, I guess? * combat 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅 activated over not just taking the bloody compliment *
Widespread support of hatpin defense, to the point that an article was widely printed as instructional. Excerpt:
"There are times in every woman’s life when a suspicious-looking character arrives on the scene and a voice whispers to the woman, ‘Beware of him.’ While most women would shrink from pulling out a revolver, it is an innocent act to put the hand to the hat and draw out one of her stiletto-like hatpins.”
Widespread opposition, unsurprisingly, from male idiots who make me ashamed to be a man...the hatpin panic/peril does in fact refer to the hysteria (a word I use intentionally and precisely in this instance) of male legislators. And everything you've heard today from victim blaming to "think of the innocent men in danger!" I'm honestly curious to see where things would have gone in an alternate timeline where The War That Definitely Didn't End All Wars didn't crash in and out everything on a different track. Would mashers still be getting stabbed with hatpins today?! I believe the vernacular is "totes, probs", but I'm probably using it wrong.
Until ‘totes, probs’ I thought you were still quoting an old timey article.
@@lordfelidae4505 Same
Nothing like victims who fight back. 😁 Of course, that's why we still have homeowners getting arrested for shooting burglars and brigands who break in...
Also, don't be ashamed of being a man. Be ashamed of them for so dishonoring the sex.
I've said this before but Granny Weatherwax would be proud.
The martial side of headology!
And making Granny Weatherwax proud is a noble aim.
Granny Aching would approve
Anything that pleases Granny Weatherwax makes me happy. Especially if it means something awful happening to someone who really deserves a hatpin somewhere tender. ;)
What I thought when I saw the title!
Me in 2018: I could kill a man with these shoes
Me in 1918: I could kill a man with this hatpin
Me in 2020: what if I could kill a man with both my shoes and my hat pins? It’s 2020, who is stopping me?
2020 all I have to do I cough.
You ladies also got your very own personal lock-pick. Chests everywhere are living in fear, doors look over their shoulders, no lock is safe!
Of course the best way to defeat any Nerr-Do-Wells is to bring along the comic relief and turn every dangerous situation into slapstick. Frankly, it will deal with Rapscallions, Evildoers, Street-Brutes, and any of the sort, to be frank.
This might just be the kind of self defense skill which may intrigue Bernadette Banner. And Cathy Hay. Although, may I humbly suggest that a fencers grip might not be the most appropriate stance...as this is more of a close quarters combat weapon...and not one for fencing thrusts and lunges. Plus the lighter weight and no sharp edge invites knocking away and grabbing away while extended forward. This is not an elegant weapon. It's a knife fight style weapon. But not slashing. Just stabbing. And gripping it so the pointed end extends from the bottom of your fist in heated battle. It can extend from the top of your fist for stealth and grappling situations. Always needs to be gripped in the fist. Not fingers.
I’ve been fencing for 35 years. An extension that places a hat pin exactly where it needs to be is legit.
There was no lunge.
@@elizabethclaiborne6461 You may have missed it in my comment, but I said it was not..."for"...fencing thrusts or lunges, emphasis on not "for". I didn't say she lunged. But any "extension" be it thrust or lunge WILL be grabbed away. Shoving it in with a stab is the only way for a hatpin to be effective. SO COOL that you have been fencing for 35 years! Color me impressed! (Especially since you could do all that and can still smell nice, Elizabeth Claiborne!)
@@classicslover
Using a hammer grip to "shove it in" Is a good way to lose your one weapon. Hatpins are very nice,but against thick clothing ...not so effective.
If you are reduced to using one for self defence, go for the eyes or ears. Nostrils work too but, too narrow a channel. If your angle is not perfect you will grate on bone, failing to reach the brain.
But what is the proper stance for hatpin combat?
I reckon somewhere between boxing and fencing stances would do the trick.
A collab with Lindybeige would be nice.
#goals 😊
I believe in most cases, the recommended approach to dealing with nefarious assailants is a surprise attack aiming for the swiftest possible incapacitation, followed by rapid de-escalation by personal relocation - in other words, hit them somewhere sensitive (follow up if needed to make sure they're staying down) and then leg it before they recover.
I suppose there is merit to adopting a policy of pre-emptive deterrence, where inflicting injury would be premature, and a confident stance implying the ability to inflict injury would encourage a prospective attacker to reconsider.
I would recommend the pointy end forward.
Haha, love it. Especially the hatpin length laws😂😂😂👌
I LOVE IT!
Especially the posh accent. Thank you for the 30 seconds of guilt free laughter.
A hat pin from back then was a formidable piece of steel
I couldn’t think of what to say but this is just
*Chef’s kiss*
Beautiful
You had me at "suspiciously good teeth" 😂
My grandmother had her old hat pins, and she told me how she and her sister fended off some brigand with their hatpins once. Lol I wish I knew what happened to them (the hat pins, of course).
Bring back the hatpins. We need em
"What's the point of that hatpin?"
0:18
"Oh, I see"
These concise combat clips are awesome, Jill! :) Further, kudos regardless if on purpose or if by serendipity: when you said New Zealand, you looked towards where old Zeeland is, in the European Netherlands, before turning your head to the other side to find NZ.
We’ll pretend that was intentional and not my maps being in the wrong order 😁
"Where is the PADDING?" I LOL'd at that one XD
I'm so happy I found your channel over lockdown. You never fail to get me grinning.
For a 1940s-era example of hatpin use against Nazis, see Fortunes of War. As an added bonus, the series stars Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh in their first role together.
Update: Here's the timecoded link, if the RUclips gods allow it:
ruclips.net/video/blP2ZGxzRdI/видео.html
What's the max length in the US for a hatpin? And why would a law be made in the first place?
The only reference I found in a quick search before work which mentions an actual length suggests nine inches. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hatpin-peril-terrorized-men-who-couldnt-handle-20th-century-woman-180951219/
Thank you both for that information. Very useful.
Also 1900s ladies found that hatpins made excellent self defense tools, and the men of that time where peeved they couldn't harass these hatpin wielding ladies without being stabbed. So they tried to make hatpins out to be dangerous to women, which is probably where the length laws came into place. Can't have that self defense hatpin stab those delicate women in the head, now can we? No!
Short answer: hatpin length laws were the result of misogyny
Men get very sulky when women stab them. Even if it's only a little stab!
Because men (hashtag notallmen) don't like it when women can fight back.
And yet another reason to fear Granny Weatherwax.
To fear and adore Granny Weatherwax. She reminds me so much of my own Great-Granny, in all the best ways!
@@neuralmute Granny Weatherwax indeed deserves adoration. Not always an easy person to live with, but certainly a rewarding relationship.
I think Sir Terry put a lot of himself into her character.
@@neuralmute Your Great Granny must have been an extraordinary person.
The hat pin laws in the U.S. were just wild. The Dollop (213 - Mashers and Hatpins) talks about the accidental and intentional injuries that led to length restrictions for these hidden hat blades.
This was great. However you do show a map of Germany when you say NZ and a map of NZ when you say Germany. I'm sorry but this did distract me
Oh bother.
You are mistaken. There exist no maps of New Zealand.
Geographic dyslexia
@@sergeantbigmac from the makers of dyslexia and dyscalculia, the brand new, top of the line *drumroll* dysgeographica!
@@jana7359 😂
Actually laughing out loud, so funny was this!
I just purchased 2 hat pins from an antique shop! One's as long as my forearm!
We should really bring those hat pins back, there good for so many things.
Back in the 50s and 60s New York City, my grandmothers still used hat pins, though they were somewhat shorter than the turn-of-the 20th century ones. One grandmother was born in 1898, the other in1903, both aspired to keep pace with current fashions.
Hatpins and hairpins were effective self defence in Europe and Asia,
Ahhhh, I now understand about the hatpin defense talk 😲 That's a serious pin!
That was amazing
Thanks!
America: So you want a gun that can shoot 200 rounds in under a minute, no problem
Girl: Can I have this hatpin which is 8 inches
America: To jail for you.
Best use of a hatpin in combat is from the movie "McClintock", one of the few John Wayne films I truly enjoy.
💚 her facial expressions!
I still have all the hat pins my great great grandma had when she lived in Chicago during the Mafia era and when she claimed she had to fight off a purse thief with her pins, they are truly beautiful little gizmos
Hahahahah, the text pointing out the anachronisms was brilliant!
Omg just saw this and absolutely love it!!!! Thank you for posting! This is so adorable! Hope your day is great! Stay safe!
Brava, indeed.
One year down and it's still one of the most brilliant shorts I've seen!
😂 I honestly haven't been following you for long, but this short is so good! And on par with your other content.
I don't normally comment, but the cleverness and utility of this video really made me want to congratulate you.
Love your content! All the best!
Granny Weatherwax approves.
#lifegoals 😁
@@JillBearup I can only assume that Granny also girds her loins on a fairly regular basis. At this point all you really need is a good set of boots and a pointy hat. Granny Bearup sounds like a witch you wouldn't want to cross 😅
Come to think of it, you may have just become one of the hags in my d&d campaign.
“Suspiciously good teeth” 😂😂😂
I have one of my grandmother’s hat pins and the first thing I thought when I saw it when I was a little girl was, “That’s dangerous”. I also thought it was pretty damn cool 😎
That intro made me laugh all the nitpicks about etiquette 10/10 priceless comedy
Young Lady, you are just awesome! Just found your videos today and subscribed because they were great!
I love the fact you say to make sure to be locally compliant.
This makes me think of Terry Pratchett and Granny Weatherwax.
Ready to defend myself against baddies in ✨STYLE✨
Useful.
tbh, I would *_kill_* to be a petticoated swashbuckler...
I has a conversation about hat pins as defense about 2 weeks ago. Much appreciated, thanks.
This made me so ridiculously happy! 👌
0:03 Am I woman? No. edwardian? No. Respectable? Bawhahaha, no.
Please continue.
When my great-grandparents were courting (around 1910-ish), Owen asked Lela if he could lay his head in her lap. She was so insult his request that she said “yes”, but when he did she stuck him with her hat pin. When I was told the story, it was also said that no one could mention the story around Papa because it was a literal sore point with him until the end of his days. (They were married more than 75 years)
I would totally watch a Netflix original series where Jill plays an Edwardian lady adventurer!
Would love to see an analysis of the fights in the Rurouni Kenshin live action films!
Me, nostalgic for the ruroni kenshin anime: "the WHAT?!"
@@AskMia411 oh man, you HAVE to check it out. Most anime adaptations into live action suck but rurouni kenshin is actually done well and the fight choreography is just * _chef's kiss_ *
What the actual fuck I'm watchig? Hahahahaha I LOVE IT
Don’t forget rapscallions!
We muggers, mashers, brigands, ne'er-do-wells and/or baddies can handle a hatpin just fine... we just do the same thing as when confronted with a sword, dagger, scimitar, bec de corbin and/or mini-nuke and that is RUN AWAY (in a very dignified way ofc).
Great stuff as ever, Jill. I had a character kill herself with a sixth-century brooch pin in one novel 😊
*pull out hair pin*
Baddie: what are you going to do with that
Her: *shank*
I register my vote for putting ‘Brava! Safe Travels’ on a t-shirt.
You are a dangerous woman!
And you have my greatest respect & admiration!
I found the pin length laes fascinating. Especially in the USA. 😆 Just found you. Fun content. 👍👍
this is the first 30 second video I've ever seen that isn't a meme
America: allows semi automatic weapons but not hatpins.
Britain: no guns but concealed weapons in hatpins are fine.
Ok nowi want to play a rogue/monk (possibly noble) woman in everr9n ot similarly victorian/edwqrdian setting that uses hatpons/hairpins as her prefered weapons
You, dear person, have given me more reason to wear a hat!
I actually am reading a thing for school called flower letters (it’s really cool you get a letter one to two weeks apart and in a year you’ve received the full story through letters) and a character has actually killed people with a hat pin
thank you for making short videos too.
Brava!
The content I'm here for
Fun editing
Wow, she's completely unrecognisable without her glasses.
If Murdoch Mysteries films in England again, I think you're shoe-in for a role.
ah yes, RUclips #Shorts, where you get a 15 second unskippable ad TWICE (yes, the same one) in order to watch a 30 second video.
My chaperone is James puckle gun.
Ooooo new character for a new story????? ( like you did for Rosamund? )
I wish there were cell phones in those times just so I could see this type of woman go to town on a mugger with a long ass hair pin. Holy hell.
My favorite unobtrusive weapon of choice is a sharpened 6H pencil. Maybe because my grandfather was a legitimate OSS field trainer.
Mary Poppins ain't messing around-
Imagine puting it back in the wrong way ouch
This is Mary Poppins in the flesh.
Brava 😄
Pepperpot usually convinces muggers to be elsewhere
I love how good teeth made the sus list!😂
ahaha a delight! :D
Polly from Peaky Blinders has one
I love you Channel
reminds me of the "Soulless" novel by Gail Carriger.
Family lore is that one of my ancestors killed a would be mugger with a hatpin and the police let her off Scott free
WE NEED MORE HAT PIN CONTROL!
😊😊😊😊