Here’s How Bobby Pins Really Got Their Name—And Whether There Was a Guy Named Bobby

Here’s How Bobby Pins Really Got Their Name—And Whether There Was a Guy Named Bobby

If you’re like me, you’ve owned approximately 6,821 bobby pins in your lifetime and currently know the location of … two. I know for sure one is in my car’s cup holder. The other one is probably lodged deep in my couch cushions, next to an Easter egg I hid too well in 2016. But while I used to think of bobby pins as just tiny tools to keep hair flyaways in check, it turns out these metal doodads have a pretty wild backstory. Who invented them? W…