Hair pouch
A hair bag is a bag into which long hair of your own or wig hair is tied.
history
The hair pouch became fashionable in France at the time of Louis XIV and common in the French and Bavarian military around 1710. After the French Revolution , the hair bag era came to an end in France. According to Carl Julius Weber , two thirds of all hair bags in Germany were to be found in Saxony .
The hair bag was intended to prevent the wearer's freedom of movement from being restricted by fluttering hair when riding, for example, or the hairstyle being destroyed, and it also protected the wearer's outer clothing from coming into contact with powder . Gabriel Busch explains that in the beginning, when the hair bag was mainly used for horse riding, the horse's tails were also tied into similar bags. Later, hair bags were worn for every occasion and in all sizes.
The hairnet fulfills a similar function ; the military hairnet decree was occasionally referred to as the hair bag.
Appearance
The hair bag was usually sewn from black taffeta or silk and padded with cotton wool or tow . The flat, ribbon-adorned pouch, which widened towards the bottom, picked up the wearer's own, powdered pigtail of hair or the back hair of the pouch wig of the wearer and hung on his neck. Depending on the occasion and fashion, it could reach a large extent.
Excessively large hair bags were sometimes the target of ridicule, so Gottfried August Bürger is said to have written a biting epigram on the extensive hair bag of a classmate in Aschersleben , which led to such a bitter brawl that the rector had to intervene. After this citizen had beaten up, however, he was sued by his grandfather, who finally took the grandson out of school and enrolled in the Halle pedagogy . A group of porcelain figures that belong to a Venetian mass and was made around 1765 probably originated from Joseph Nees . It shows a gentleman who, because of his exaggeratedly wide hair pouch, is unable to easily walk through an archway. A servant has to help him maneuver the extensive structure through the arch, while a plainly dressed spectator laughs and watches the scene.
Hair pouches in sayings and book titles
Redensartlich even a light was noise called hair bag. This was said to go back to a major from the Seven Years' War who couldn't get on with his hairstyle and clothes after drinking too much and then showed himself with a hair bag instead of the stiff soldier's pigtail; however, there are other theories of origin as well. Wander explains the expression “he (himself) has (bought) a hair bag” for “he is intoxicated” with the fact that “common people sometimes feel as if they are higher and more important than they really are, in their imagination Wear a hair bag ”. According to Wander, the phrase can also mean that someone has bought something superfluous.
Several literary works have the word "hair bag" in the title, such as the posse father Noah's hair bag by Karl Emil von Schafhäutl , Julius von Voss ' story of the minister Count Sternthal, which began with a French hair bag and ended with an old German barrette, and the hair bag by Wilhelm Busch .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brockhaus, Kleines Konversationslexikon, 1911
- ^ Carl Julius Weber: Germany or letters from a German traveling in Germany . Third volume. 3. Edition. Stuttgart 1855, GoogleBooks p. 146, Text Archive - Internet Archive
- ↑ Origin of the hair pouch . In: Concordia. Passau non-profit entertainment and announcement sheet , third year, 1849, no p.
- ^ Gabriel Christian Benjamin Busch: Handbook of Inventions . 4th part, 2nd division. 4th edition. Eisenach 1808, p. 3
- ↑ Karl Heinrich Jördens (ed.): Memories, character traits and anecdotes from the life of the most excellent German poets and prose writers . 1st volume. Leipzig 1812, p. 302 f.
- ↑ Joseph Nees: Satire on the fashion of large hair bags ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hair pouch . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 8, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1907, p. 573 .
- ↑ Hair pouch . In: Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander (Ed.): Deutsches Sprich emphasis-Lexikon , Volume 5. Leipzig 1880, p. 230
- ↑ . In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 10 : H, I, J - (IV, 2nd division). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1877, Sp. 25 .
- ^ Heinrich König: King Jérômes Carneval , 3rd part. Leipzig 1855, p. 303, Textarchiv - Internet Archive
