Using of a handkerchief by Polish men...

handkerchief - a small square of cloth used especially for wiping the nose or mouth

i don't know about my great-grandpas, but my grandpas and my dad always have a handkerchief in their packet... i remember that it helped many times with my tears... my 24 year old brother do not carry it anymore...

does a handkerchief have no future and should be left in the past...? is it only a Polish thing...?

PS - handkerchief is not used only by men but also by women....

If you wash it regularly then it may have a future.

i do not use it.... but i used to when i was younger...
does it really have a future? i doubt it...

I think it's a good idea to have a handkerchief...Especially if you need to blow your nose...However, tissues are good, too...You can blow your nose or spit into a tissue and not look like a bum: they also can be recycled.

*...pgtx wzycha, bo jej ręce opadają.... :/ .....*

if the "green" technologies are for real then fabric handkerchiefs have brighter future than the more resource and energy intensive throwaway tissues.

I work with an old Polish chap who has another use for his handkerchief. Honest to God!

Luckily for him, I don't think this causes his brain to hurt.

handkerchief - Back in the 1950`s

Now they have better uses

PGT you must be really bored

Are handkerchiefs used in any forms of folk-dancing?

Why the hell am I asking this question?


Probably not the only one.

we all know you have lots of time on your hands:)

i have a clean one in my pocket at all times, cannot leave home without one lol

So is it for showing or blowing?


Actually yes, Square dancing
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Most eastern europeans hold one nostril and blow down the other or use their sleeve.

My dad used to keep a handkerchief (lost the habit fortunately) in his pocket as did both of my grandfathers. I always that it was digusting.

Did handkerchiefs go the same way as hats? You just don't see hats these days like in generations gone by?
Hats deserve their own thread.