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Friendship Pins

by Jeffrey A. Garoutte

If you were a girl during the 1980’s, and you had friends, you probably were given friendship pins. . .and, more than likely, you created a multitude of your own and gave them away to all of your girlfriends as well.

Friendship pins have been a long-standing, easy craft item for decades and, even today, there are web sites dedicated to nothing but friendship pins and the patterns that the tiny beads can make by placing several of the safety pins together in a row. Kids make them. . .senior citizens make them. . .but in the early 1980’s, teenaged girls made them.

If you were a proud recipient of a coveted friendship pin, you proudly displayed it (along with every other friendship pin that you received) on your tennis shoes, attaching them to your shoe laces. Whether you wore leather hi-top Reeboks, kangaroos, jazz shoes or a worn out pair of Chuck Taylor’s, if you had friends, you had pins on your shoes.

Now, there were always those girls that didn’t have close enough friends to be given friendship pins. . .sad, but when that happened, they just made some for their own shoes so that they didn’t get left out. SHHHHHH! Don’t tell anyone. . . .

Universal Bead Color Code

• White: gentle, pussycat
• Red: strong, vigorous, sweetheart
• Orange: calm, buddy
• Yellow: intelligent, good friend

• Green: envious, enemy
• Turquoise: sensitive
• Blue: happy, hugs and kisses
• Black: sad

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