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01-09-2010, 04:23 PM
#101
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01-09-2010 04:23 PM
# ADS
Circuit advertisement
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01-09-2010, 04:25 PM
#102
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01-09-2010, 04:26 PM
#103
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01-09-2010, 04:31 PM
#104
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01-09-2010, 04:35 PM
#105
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01-09-2010, 04:38 PM
#106
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01-09-2010, 10:17 PM
#107
Re: Muetzenfabrik
F-B, I am simply stunned into silence--these are the kinds of pics I have been looking for (without success) for years! In this little thread, you have posted more information on the manufacture, regs, and distribution than has been posted (or written) about anywhere else! I had never seen the inside of a Muetzenfabrik before, despite endless dead-end searches. If I was to ever go back for the PhD, it would be on the manufacture and retail of these items, with a focus on the guilds themselves.
Do the articles discuss how long it took (on average) to become a Meister?
If I recall correct, in the mid-1960s the last Meister test was given--the problem was that there were no hatmakers left to administer the tests, so regular tailors had to do so(!)
Thanks, FB!
“Show me the regulation, and I’ll show you the exception.”
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01-09-2010, 10:20 PM
#108
Re: Muetzenfabrik
The Muetzenschau also depicts one of the very rare Olympic Team visors. There has to be more pics of this show somewhere---perhaps in some former Hatmakers photo album....
“Show me the regulation, and I’ll show you the exception.”
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01-09-2010, 10:31 PM
#109
Re: Muetzenfabrik
Thanks again FB for all this wonderful stuff. I keep going back to it time and time again and cursing my woeful German.
Thanks too as well to Chris: I was racking my brains to think of what organisation that white cap represented.
Cheers, Ade.
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01-09-2010, 10:31 PM
#110
Re: Muetzenfabrik
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stonemint
F-B, I am simply stunned into silence--these are the kinds of pics I have been looking for (without success) for years! In this little thread, you have posted more information on the manufacture, regs, and distribution than has been posted (or written) about anywhere else! I had never seen the inside of a Muetzenfabrik before, despite endless dead-end searches. If I was to ever go back for the PhD, it would be on the manufacture and retail of these items, with a focus on the guilds themselves.
Do the articles discuss how long it took (on average) to become a Meister?
If I recall correct, in the mid-1960s the last Meister test was given--the problem was that there were no hatmakers left to administer the tests, so regular tailors had to do so(!)
Thanks, FB!
Dear Chris, thanks. Go learn German and I will help you write the book. I have less than no time, and I have wasted all week screwing around with this, when I have multiple assignments to finish of a fairly vital nature. I believe that an apprenticeship in tailoring was eight years, and I imagine in the cap trade it would not be different to be a Meister. There were other stages, of course. There was a whole hierarchy. I have more pictures in hand, but will post them later.
You can still be trained as a headwear maker. I know the places in Bavaria where you can go, but the training is for women's fashion mostly, but the skills are not unlike the old ones. But the uniform trade, of course, is mostly dead in Germany for obvious reasons.
I am always interested how German society is put together, since I am engaged in it professionally to a very high degree, also in Austria. Hence, these kinds of details are compelling and exciting, but they are also very foreign in a world where the transition from the trades and crafts to the industrial age is quite alien amid the digital age, the service economy, and the general debasement of work via globalization.
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