Garter belt
The garter is in its original form, a strip of material over a stocking to prevent tied around the leg to these from sliding. This happened below or above the knee, depending on the fashion. Garters, like suspenders (suspenders), were originally worn by both sexes.
Nature and use
With the disappearance of long stockings from men's fashion in the 19th century, the garter belt became a purely female part of clothing.
Krünitz describes the garter belt as follows in his lexicon of 1858 :
“The ribbons are of various types, especially in women who use them to drive a kind of luxury. One has linen, cotton, silk etc. ribbons; then padded fabrics of all kinds, with springs, etc. The ordinary ribbons, about two inches wide and about 1½ to 2 feet long, are wrapped a couple of times around the leg below the knee, and then with a bow fastened, that is, the tape is tied through, as if to a knot, and pulled into a loop. The length of the band depends on the one or two folds around the leg. […] The colors of the ribbons are very different and depend on the taste of the wearer: red, blue, yellow, green, brown, in all shades of light to dark; then also all intermediate colors: ash gray, silver, violet, lavender, pink, orange etc. "
The newer designs no longer have to be tied, but are elastic so that they can be slipped over the leg. They are worn concealed on the thigh. With the invention of hold-up stockings and pantyhose , garters are no longer required for practical purposes, but have survived, for example, as traditional accessories in bridal fashion. Typical is z. B. the auction of the bride's garter .
Even today, gogo girls like to use a garter belt . Here it is used to collect the slipped banknotes.
Oddities
Bertha Benz , wife of the automobile inventor Carl Benz , used her garter belt during her first long-distance journey in an automobile in early August 1888 to insulate a defective cable on her Benz Patent Motor Car No. 3 . The Bertha Benz Memorial Route , which leads from Mannheim via Heidelberg to Pforzheim and back again, reminds us of that historic journey . In contemporary workshop manuals for the Trabant , it is explicitly recommended to carry a women's garter belt with you to replace a possibly tearing V-belt , so that the journey can be continued on a makeshift basis.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Strumpfband, das (Adelung, grammatical-critical dictionary of the high German dialect, volume 4. Leipzig 1801, p. 459). In: zeno.org. 1793, Retrieved May 21, 2017 .
- ↑ Garter. In: kruenitz1.uni-trier.de. University of Trier , accessed on May 21, 2017 .
- ^ Bertha Benz Memorial Route