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"Young Stutzer" (15th century)

A person who wants to attract social attention with exaggerated, affected -looking elegance is called a fashion fanatic, also old-fashioned Stutzer, Fant or Geck .

Word history

The ennobling around 1800 says about Stutzer :

"From stutzen, to shine in clothes, Stutzer is the one who tries to surpass others of his class in dainty clothes."

Georges Small German-Latin Concise Dictionary from 1910 gives briefly: "Stutzer, homo elegans or elegantior (who is picky about his clothes etc.)" and adds: " bellus homunculus (a nice guy)".

Dude , in the Middle Ages still 'fool' in the sense of 'jester', as in the heraldry of dude , Adelung, however, defines it as “a silly, foolish person, a fool”, while Pierer around 1860 defines it as “a fool who fulfills his supposed claims shows his merits in front of others, but makes himself look ridiculous ", but Stutzer already as" a person who treats himself with excessive care and the like. Delicacy dresses, likes to dress up; Fashion-mad, dude "largely has the same meaning - cleaning here in the old sense of" decorating ", see headdress .

The Brockhaus from 1837, for example - in the tradition of the "edifying and educational" - defines conversation lexicon :

“Stutzer describes a vain person who seeks to distinguish himself particularly by wearing clothes that are appropriate to the latest fashion, even the same exaggerated clothes. It is true that the dumpster still differs from the dude in that his vanity does not turn into repugnance, is limited to clothing and does not show himself tasteless in the exaggeration of fashion, but with his vanity he always betrays a weak, untrained or perverse mind, and is rightly ridiculed by those who understand. "

Meyer's Großes Konversations-Lexikon from 1907 already refers the word Stutzer to the catchphrase Geck , and states: “Geck, originally fool and in this sense still now on the Rhine for carnival fool [today: Jeck , note], then in figurative sense fashion-mad, Stutzer. "

The even older German word Fant stands for infans 'boy', just as many of the historical expressions are closely related to youth terms and - openly or implicitly - also aim in the direction of homosexuality .

Cultural history

Pantalone

In the Commedia dell'arte you can find the prototypical self-loving fashion fanatic, the Pantalone (not sure from 'Hose').

The Meyersche Lexikon gives at the turn of the century:

“Since Paris has set the tone in the field of fashion, especially fashionable clothing, it has created a number of dude types which, reflecting the character of their time, are of interest to the cultural historian: The mignons of Heinrich III. followed under Heinrich IV. and Ludwig XIII. the muguets , under Louis XIV the raffinés and petits-maîtres . The immoral age of the reign and the kings Louis XV. and Louis XVI. characterized the roués , musqués and mirliflors , which were replaced by the muscadius , merveilleux , incroyables and petits-sucrés under the Directory and the First Empire . In the age of Louis XVIII. and Charles X. rule the Gandins, Werther and lions . The beginning in the 1840s anglomania is characterized by the dandys and fashionables , which under the second Empire the petits-crevés u. cocodès , after 1870 the gommeux , petits-gras , vibrions etc. followed. Modern German dudism found its representative in the Viennese » Gigerl «. "

Modern terms, albeit with different connotations , are in French Beau ( 'Pretty Boy', today more in the sense Playboy ), the Austrian feschak and Flemish Manneken , that used later in French Mannequin . A newer term with a slightly different meaning is the term poser .

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Christoph Adelung : The Stutzer . In: Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect . 4th edition. tape 4 . Leipzig 1801, p. 491 ( zeno.org ).
  2. ↑ Stutzer . In: Karl Ernst Georges (ed.): Small German-Latin concise dictionary . Hanover and Leipzig 1910, Sp. 2251 ( zeno.org - reprint Darmstadt 1999).
  3. ↑ The Gêck . 2. In: Adelung . tape 2 , 1796, pp. 459-460 ( zeno.org ).
  4. ↑ Dude  1). In: Pierer's Universal Lexicon . tape 7 , p. 37 ( zeno.org ).
  5. ↑ Stutzer  4). In: Pierer's Universal Lexicon . tape 17 , p. 20 ( zeno.org ).
  6. ↑ "... in the true sense of the word a" manual for the dissemination of non-profit knowledge and entertainment "..." In: Foreword [to vol. 1] . In: Brockhaus Bilder-Conversations-Lexikon . 1st edition. tape 1 . FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1837, p. V5-VII7 ( zeno.org ).
  7. ↑ Stutzer . In: Brockhaus Bilder-Conversations-Lexikon . 1st edition. tape 4 . FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1841, p. 324 ( zeno.org ).
  8. ↑ a b dude . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. tape 7 . Leipzig 1907, p. 423 ( zeno.org - article refers to panel "Costumes III", Fig. 12).
  9. ↑ The Fänt . In: Adelung . tape 2 , 1796, pp. 41 ( zeno.org ).