Detachable collar

As a parricide, a stiff, open at the front, high collar dress shirt of the Lord is called, which is buttoned separately on the collarless shirt. The loose upstanding pointed ends of parricide goes down past the chin.

History

The collar form of parricide developed in the 19th century and found its greatest dissemination in the Biedermeier era and pre-March period (ca. 1815-1848 ). He reached the largest collar height in the 20s and 30s of the 19th century. The usual today turned up shirt collar there was at that time already, but its use was common only in an informal setting.

Parricide are nowadays worn almost exclusively in special festive occasions in connection with a dress suit or tuxedo. Even in today's time to experiment with fashion designers again historical sections of men's fashion. Nowadays there are occasional carrier just to the very high, reaching over her chin parricide that indicate plausible that a well-fitting, tailored parricide was not completed gender as a modernized Kent collar.

Name

In France, the country of origin of this collar shape, called the parricide - collar originally parasite (ie " parasites" ), since he could be placed on different shirts.

A formerly widespread interpretation derives from the name of this now rare garment of his alleged inconvenience. The collar would sometimes lead to pressure points and incisions on the neck, the neck and back muscles may be hampered by the parricide collar. Due to pressure of the collar to the carotid sinus is sometimes supposed to be even come to a reflex fall in blood pressure with concomitant dizziness up to circulatory collapse, which explains the term " parricide " (French parricide ).

Another interpretation under the name of " parricide " in a word joke back: The Germans heard the French term parasite that is acoustically difficult to distinguish from the similar-sounding parricide, and translated this word as " parricide ".

According to legend, the name is supposed to have arisen because a man died after he has gouged in the embrace with the collar an eye his son.