Be it a sheaf of papers that need to be kept rolled or loose hair to be tied- rubber bands come in to the rescue! Although initially, our Victorian predecessors never really used anything but ribbons to ‘tie’, the rubber band soon caught up and made its way into our everyday life. Fancy, colourful and extremely user friendly, the rubber band also is very economical to use. If not for it, we’d still be complaining of having to tie ribbons on our hair, paper, packets and whatnot!