Scrunchies

[pne]

For some reason, I was thinking about scrunchies just now, the things some people put in their hair.

I googled randomly and a couple of the top hits were an entry in urbandictionary.com saying essentially "something that formerly everyone wore, but that you can't wear today without being chased out of school" and a website discussing whether the "don't wear scrunchies in public" rule applied or not.

Are scrunchies really that passé?

Comments

[angelsk.livejournal.com]

I have a plain black one, minaly because my hair is too thick and heavty for a normal bobble :)

[pne.livejournal.com]

What's a bobble?

I remember when I was last in England (several years ago), my cousin's daughters referred to something in their hair as a "bubble" (probably the same thing) but I don't remember what it was.

Google Images brings up mostly cartoon figures.

[kamara.livejournal.com]

http://www.melanielewisdesigns.com/Hair%20Bobbles.htm

Hair bobbles! Been *years* since i've last worn a bobble. Although I do usually carry one around with me should i ever need it.

[pne.livejournal.com]

Oh! I know those. No idea what they're called in German, though.

What do you call those things out of metal that have a rough oval on the top and a kind of "tongue" on the bottom, that you clip open, slide some hair in, and clip shut again?

On the right, here:

The first thing that comes to mind is "hair grips", but aren't those strips of metal that are bent 180°?

I'd call the metal ones "Haarspange" in German, which LEO gives as "barrette"... but I associate those with plastic, often brown, ovals with a movable/slidable tongue rather an a "clippable" one (you slide the "tongue" backwards on a longish hole at one end so that the other end of the tongue isn't lying on the other end of the oval any more, than move it up; then slide hair under and move the tongue back down, and slide it forward to rest on the oval again)... hm, can't find a picture of those.

Hm, and then there're these things: which I don't have a name for at all... And little, often butterfly-shaped plastic spring-loaded things with kind of "comb" prongs:

Asking a female coworker isn't particularly productive; it appears that German doesn't have a whole lot of words to differentiate the various kinds of hair accessories, calling pretty much everything either "hair elastic" or "hair clip".

[volantwish]

I would call the metal thing a "hair clip" or a "barrette," and I've often heard the butterly-shaped thing called a "claw."

[angelsk.livejournal.com]

1. Hair clips
2. Hair grips
3. Barrette
4. Hair clamp? Possibly. I will have a think.

[subbes]

Hair clip
Bobby pin
Barette
'claw'?

....oh look, they rolled out the new comment form with the openid stuff and it looks HORRIBLE. Don't ever let programmers design pages.

[sovereigna.livejournal.com]

(agreed)
1. Hair Clip
2. Bobby Pin
3. Barrette
4. Claw or Butterfly Clip

And we call them scrunchies as well, altho no-one would be caught dead wearing one ;)

[angelsk.livejournal.com]

An elasticated band with thread wrapped around and some kind of metal fastener. Urm, hard to describe. Apparently called ponybands in Boots :)
http://www.boots.com/brandtreatment/product_details_brand_treatment.jsp?productid=1054679&classificationid=1031917

[pne.livejournal.com]

Oh! You call those "bobbles"?

Interesting. "Haargummi" ("hair elastic"/"hair rubber") for me.

Thanks!

[angelsk.livejournal.com]

They are all bobbles for me. I never use "elastics" or "scrunchies" as terms to be honest.

[pne.livejournal.com]

I think "scrunchie" is an American term.

[angelsk.livejournal.com]

Quite possibly.