Many things will be fine in that it gives them a better name. The “clutch bag” but was also quite beautiful as they are not “clutch” was called. Only among all the arms it is only since it’s renaming.
A bag that is selected on the basis of what fits and how much, it’s called baggage. A clutch is the exact opposite. She usually looks best when they are left empty. Best we consider a clutch not even a pocket, but as a piece of jewelry. Whether they fill really with nothing but credit and business cards may of course depend on their style, is certainly only one thing: what used to store the first Clutch-makers in their purses carries nowadays nobody with him – smelling salts.
Utensils for the impotence in Hakelbeutel
Its origin is the Clutch in Victorian England, where the young ladies swoon represented at a popular amusement. If you pass out, so it was time to whip out handkerchief and smelling salts. These utensils carried the so-called Ladies in reticules around with them, small bags, which were often covered by an embroidered Hakelnetz, hence the name (rete, Latin for net).
The Roaring Twenties: emancipation through pocket
We make a jump in the twenties of the 20th Century: Women emancipate, they dare to go alone to the door, pulling her lipstick in public and pay for their drinks with their own money. However, their pockets have straight-cut flapper dresses not, and so the small pouch, which can be worn clipped in hand or under the arm, the perfect repository for everything that the modern woman for her night out.
And because the fashion of that time strongly with long chains and voluminous hair pieces relies on accessories, the clutch bag in European cities from Berlin to Paris for the essential part of a look. Influential for the development of clutches in that time the material bakelite, which allows static forms and bags will produce such box.
The modern era of the Clutch
In the thirties, most Europeans have other things to do than to try to wearing Parts. During this time very small handbags are made, but probably less of fashionable reasons, but because leather is a rare commodity in this time.
After the Second World War, the clutch mode is resumed. The merit of having revived the clutch is often Christian Dior attributed, however, is only partially correct. In fact, Christian Dior is still regarded as the most important driving force for the fashion of the postwar period, and took 1947’s beginning, when Dior presented his first collection, which was so full of new ideas, forms and colors that he thus became the founder of ” New Look was “.
Dior also showed pockets, and yes, there was also Clutches, but there was next to Dior bags and clothes and stockings, lipstick and perfume. Dior was the first couturier to the postwar period, the – put on accessories such as a revenue generator and internationally marketed and sold – thanks to his partner Jacques Rouet. That the clutch was eventually as a Dior invention was, therefore, simply to their sheer presence.
Clutches of the most beautiful season
Today there are a plurality of clutch-forms. Which in baguette shape (a specialty of Fendi), in envelope shape (is extremely popular for about two years and especially beautiful at Jil Sander), or as jewelry encrusted hard shell. In the latter form, however, we speak rather of a Minaudiere. Also this already existed in the 1930s, its invention is attributed to the jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels.
The absolute queen of Minaudieres is the American Judith Leiber.
Their crystal-covered purses in unusual shapes to be particularly fond of evening gowns on the red carpet of Oscars or the Metropolitan Museum Costume Gala worn. The advantage of a hard-shell clutch is that it does not bulge. But should generally apply: no one wears a clutch to something else to carry with them as a clutch. For everything else, there are bags.
