When Hat Pins Were Used As A Weapon for Women in the Victorian Era! Women in the late 1800s early 1900s had just started shopping on their own without an escort. In big cities they would take public transportation. Women from the Victorian era were dressed in long dresses and beautiful hats. Because men had just begun to have close proximity with women they didn’t know sometimes they would get too close, and totally inappropriate, and women would have to defend themselves. This is the story of h