Men's handbag
As Mr. handbag one of is men used variant of the handbag respectively.
Men's handbags are not based in their design on the handbags used by women; rather, they are designed as enlarged wallets with an increased number of compartments. They are mostly made of leather , synthetic leather or synthetic fibers . A holding loop is usually used to carry the bag on the wrist , which is why it is also called a men's wrist bag . Shoulder straps are used less often.
The men's handbag came into use in the second half of the 1970s. The tight cut in the hip and seat area of fashionable men's trousers of that time made it difficult or even impossible to carry wallets in your trouser pockets. The men's handbag, usually a wrist bag, should help as a new accessory . Shoulder bags were only available in special professions, such as detector bags for the fire brigade and military, postman , conductors , sometimes cashiers .
Since previously only women carried handbags and men only carried briefcases , men’s handbags and wrist bags were initially perceived as unmanly and given homophobic names. They were only considered established in the late 1970s, but they went out of fashion again in the early 1980s and have only been used rarely since then.
The men's handbag has increasingly returned to public perception as a characteristic accessory of the popular characters Horst Schlämmer of the German comedian Hape Kerkeling and Erwin Pelzig of the cabaret artist Frank Markus Barwasser .
A six- pack of beer is also jokingly called a men's handbag.
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- ↑ Jody Skinner: Terms for the homosexual in German. Volume II - A Dictionary , The Blue Owl, 1998, ISBN 3-89206-903-4
- ↑ Young people's language - on the "Bananenbräuner" only with "Pornobalken" , Die Welt Online, December 5, 2007