Hat pin
Hat pins are used to attach large women's hats to the wearer's head. The needle is put through the hat and the coiffed hair (possibly the wig ). In Germany hat pins were mainly used in the period from 1890 to 1925, but also now and then to wear large women's hats.
layout
The length of a hat pin varies, usually reaching a length of around 20 cm. But there are also examples for a length of 35 cm. In the USA , a law is said to have been passed in 1908 that limited the length of hat pins so that there was no risk of injury to the public. There were also in different places, e.g. B. public transport, the instruction to provide the tips of hat pins with a protection to prevent injuries to bystanders.
The end of hat pins can be handcrafted as a fashion accessory. The end of the hat pin is made from a wide variety of materials, such as gold and silver , jewels and semi-precious stones, pearls, copper , brass , ivory , tortoise shell , porcelain and glass. The needle itself can be made of steel or iron.
history
In the Middle Ages, needles were used for giving .
In the period from 1890 to 1925, the fashion trend of wearing hat pins reached a peak in Germany. The advent of hat pins was related to the fact that in 1900 women's clothes became narrower and tighter. The wagon- wheel- sized gorgeous hats for women, which were usually richly adorned and required fastening with a hat pin, were used to compensate for the appearance. Wearing a unique hat also indicated the wealth of the women who wore it.
Further use
Hat pins were used on various occasions, which are documented in literature, film and painting.
There are some examples of hatpin murders in literature: For example, in the book Pandora's Box by Agatha Christie , a collection of short stories, in the short story The Sunningdale Mystery, a person is murdered by a hatpin prick in the heart. Also in the television series Der Bulle von Tölz (1996) in Death on Shrove Monday, an employee who had dressed up as a sheikh is stabbed to death with a hatpin at a carnival ball.
On December 31, 1857, Queen Victoria was asked to determine the capital for the province of Canada ; She is said to have stuck her hat pin about halfway between the cities of Toronto and Montreal on a map , and the closest place was Ottawa .
Bertha Benz used a petrol-powered vehicle from Mannheim to Pforzheim on the first long-distance journey in 1888, the Bertha Benz Memorial Route . This trip was illegal because the police ordered the vehicle not to be moved outside of her home town. When the petrol engine had problems, Bertha Benz took a hat pin to clear a blocked petrol line.
Emma Miller , a committed 73-year-old trade unionist and suffragette , led a group of women and girls during a large general strike demonstration in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1912. The women were threatened by the police, who were armed with bayonets. Miller took her hatpin and stabbed the horse of the senior police officer William Geoffrey Cahill of Queensland, whereupon his horse shied, threw him off and Cahill injured himself with the consequence of a later walking disability.
Web links
- miniatures-and-collectibles.com : Modern, Vintage & Antique Hat Pins (English)
- zeno.org : Beware of hat pins! Illustration of a hatpin wearer on a postcard
Individual evidence
- ↑ Britannica.com : Hatpin , accessed 1 April 2011
- ↑ etsy.com : Antique Glass Hatpin Set Original Card 1900s Stock , accessed April 1, 2011
- ↑ echo-online.de ( 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. : Sabine Dingeldein: Bischofsheim: “Hat pin exhibition” Collector Reinhard Riesel shows how the hat pin determined the centuries from March 23, 2009, accessed on April 1, 2011
- ↑ Ingrid Loscheck: Reclams fashion and costume encyclopedia . Stuttgart 1999, pp. 311 ff, 143f .; Roswitha Mattausch-Schirmbeck: "Well protected". Accompanying document to the permanent exhibition of the hat museum in the museum of the city of Bad Homburg vd Höhe. Bad Homburg 1985, p. 18
- ↑ episodeworld.com : Der Bull von Toelz (1996), accessed April 1, 2011
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de : Verena Wolf: Ottawa. Anything but dreary! , February 1, 2010, accessed April 1, 2010
- ↑ stuttgarter-nachrichten.de : Andrea Jenewein: With hat pin and garter belt in the Benz from March 12, 2010, accessed on April 1, 2011
- ↑ Pam Young: The Hatpin - A Weapon. Women and the 1912 Brisbane General Strike. In: Hecate. 1988 (English).
- ↑ Pam Young: Proud to be a Rebel. The Life and Times of Emma Miller. University of Queensland Press, 1991. ISBN 0-7022-2374-3 (English).
