Hat box
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The hat box , also called a hat box , is a storage container for hats and a fashion accessory that is less common these days .
history
Corresponding to the mostly round hat brim , the conventional shape of the box is also round, and more rarely oval or polygonal . Hat boxes are traditionally made from laminated cardboard , chipboard ( chipboard box ) or suitcase leather ; Another earlier production method, analogous to suitcases, made of vulcanized fiber is less common nowadays. Modern versions are also made from plastic or thin sheet metal . The edges are partially reinforced with leather or synthetic leather in the form of piping , especially in hat boxes made of laminated cardboard.
There are also models with a handle (mostly made of metal and / or leather) and with a lockable (suitcase) lock , which are suitable for taking with you on trips . With the top hat , which is usually covered with relatively sensitive silk , a matching hat box is mandatory and is usually offered in full.
After hats largely ceased to be used as general headwear since the 1950s, as the number of hats decreased, so did the importance of some associated items such as hat boxes and hat stands . As a fashion accessory, hat boxes are of little importance nowadays, with older items at the same time becoming nostalgic collectibles and being offered, for example, at flea markets and online auction houses.
Hat box in everyday and contemporary culture
The term “hat box” is often used , especially colloquially , to denote or counteract containers of very different sizes with mostly cramped interior space and / or unusual contents. The term was also used accordingly in the predominantly older literature , for example the writer Erich Köhler thematized the cramped living conditions in a residential camp of the post-war period in his story, entitled Report from a Hat Box (Nine Sections about Lübbenau) , published in 1969 . Colloquially, "hat box" or "old hat box" is often used as a pejorative swear word , mostly related to women .
Disused hat boxes were often used as a container for collecting “small souvenirs” or “secret treasures”, such as love letters, theater tickets and photos, because of their robustness and size as well as their availability as a common fashion accessory in the past; so that the term “hat box” has become a synonym for “keeping lovable memories”.
In terms of architecture, the former official prison in Saalfeld / Saale , which was built in the middle of the 19th century as an extension to the town hall in the form of an idiosyncratic, tower-like rotunda, was popularly known as the "hat box"; and the Guggenheim Museum in New York (USA) is also known as the "hat box" ( English: "bandbox", "hatbox") because of its strikingly shaped rotunda.
Legend has it that the inventor of the popular board game “ Mensch ärgere Dich nicht ”, Josef Friedrich Schmidt , scribbled the concept of today's classic game in 1905 on an old hat box to keep his three little, bored sons busy. A “circular book on metal stand” published in 2005, the 1970s collage by the author Anselm Umwohl with the title Acapulco-Gold: Collage , was each provided with a so-called “ round cover ” consisting of a “hat box”.
See also
literature
- Model hat. Journal for women's hats, men's hats, caps, accessories . Herzfeld, Wiesbaden 1949–1997, ISSN 0723-7839 . (Former fashion magazine with monthly publication; was discontinued in 1997)
- Bernhard Roetzel: The gentleman. Manual of classic men's fashion . Könemann, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-89508-637-1 .
- Birgit Bräuer (arrangement), Rainer Springhorn (ed.): Miss Haberbeck and her hats. Creations between Art Nouveau and Modernism. Book accompanying the exhibition in the Lippisches Landesmuseum Detmold, May 28 - October 22, 2000 . Lippisches Landesmuseum, Detmold 2000 (= catalogs of the Lippisches Landesmuseum Detmold, vol. 2), ISBN 3-9806765-2-8 . (Exhibition catalog)
- Pepin van Roojen: Fashion accessories. Fashion accessories . 1st edition, Pepin-Press, Amsterdam a. a. 2006, ISBN 90-5496-058-2 . (multilingual, including German)
- Josephine Barbe u. a .: leather. History, techniques, projects . 1st ed., Haupt Verl., Bern u. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-258-07072-8 , pp. 132 ff. (→ Chapter 5., Section 5.2: hat box )
Web links
- JW Goethe's hat box made of leather
- Thematization of the "hat box" in the (older) literature - literature list of the German National Library for the keyword "hat box"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erich Köhler: Report from a hat box (nine sections about Lübbenau) , stories and book excerpts, Erich Köhler GDR .
- ↑ cf. as an example: Bernd interim moderation: Politesse 1 , episode from the children's television series Bernd das Brot , Chili TV Classics .
- ↑ cf. As an example: The Baden-Württemberg theater Lindenhof presented its program for 07 + 08 + 09/07 under the motto “An old hat box full of love” (program booklet; PDF file, accessed: February 19, 2008).
- ↑ "New York New Museum of Contemporary Art - Shoe boxes and hat boxes" ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Report from February 4, 2008, Kunstfreunde .
- ↑ Anselm Unwohl: Acapulco-Gold: Collage . 1st edition, Nada-Autorverl., Kastl 2005 (= Nada - the magical book), ISBN 978-3-937391-01-4 . (Circular book on metal stand, with circular cover).
