Despite being known as French hair pins, double-pointed hair pins were also worn in ancient Chinese and Korean cultures. They’re often sturdier and easier to use than single-prong hair pins, ...

Males in ancient China officially became adult at 20 and females at 15. ... the master of the ceremony would put a hair pin on a girl's beautifully decorated bun, that signaled she was now an adult.

With ornate pins in her hair and wearing a long flowing robe with sweeping sleeves over a heavily embroidered gold and purple silk skirt, Veronica Kam Pui-ka blends in nicely at West Kowloon’s ...