
Carry your keys on them, attach them to your belt loop, use them to harness a slightly-too-large pair of jorts, wear them as earrings or on a necklace — you can do anything you like with this summer’s ‘It’ accessory.
In case you know these dinky little handymen by sight rather than name, they’re carabiners. A tool traditionally used in climbing to link one item to another or attach oneself to a rope, you’re now more likely to see them hanging off a pair of distressed Dickies, attached to a Miu Miu miniskirt, or dangling from a dainty Missoma chain.