If it is the same trick that the cavaliers of the 17th Century had with a lady's hand, and the dandies of the 18th with a silver perruque and a puffing neckcloth, that is because .
The bulk of Composer Riegger's work is atonalin fact, he was an atonalist back in the days before the tone row had replaced the velvet neckcloth as a musical status symbol.
Always he wore a white neckcloth and a Revolution-style coat.