From: Naomi Segal
Sent: 06 March 2019 15:21
To: german-studies
Subject: FW: Spencerle?

 

Thank you so much everybody who’s answered, in just a few minutes, + for the links.

 

Fascinatingly it seems to be everything from Bavarian to Viennese & only for men or only for women & knitted or sewn & sleeveless or a jacket. Hooray for words (& for german-studies)!

 

N

 

 

 

Dear All

 

I am knitting my granddaughters some little tank-tops & it reminded me that my mother, born in Sudetenland in 1921, used to call this garment a ‘spencerle’ (or spenserle? Spencerle?). has anybody heard this term or do you know what it might derive from? There’s nothing in google (at least Anglophone google).

 

Thanks for any thoughts,

Naomi

 

 

Prof Naomi Segal

Visiting Professor in French & German Studies

Dept of Cultures & Languages, School of Arts

Birkbeck, University of London

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