Wing dress
A wing dress is the name given to dresses that small children wore into the 19th century.
The upper layer of these dresses was divided in the back and two long panels of fabric hung down like wings; according to other accounts, the hanging sleeves formed a kind of wing. The Grimm dictionary gives numerous examples, according to which wearing the winged dress or still in the winged dress was a synonym for childliness and immaturity, in the same sense the expression is still used in Theodor Fontane's novel Irrecoverable . A song from Franconia begins with the verse
"When I went to the girls' school with grand piano dresses, I was already in my twelfth year, an exuberant thing [...]"
and depicts the girl's first innocent love for a high school student.
Individual evidence
- ↑ wing dress. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 3 : E – research - (III). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1862 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
- ↑ When I was wearing grand piano dresses. In: musicanet.org. Retrieved January 24, 2015 .