A flat cap is a round cap with a small rigid fringe in front. This cap is also known as the Galen hat, the cap cabbie , gatsby hat , hat long cap , cloth , scally cap , Wigens cap , hat ivy , derby hat , close jack , jeff hat , duffer cap , cap duckbill , cap propeller , hat bikes , Irish hat , hatcher hat , hat of criminals , Vergon hat , Joao hat , sixpence , or rice cap , close Boston , and in regional varieties: in Scotland as bunnet , in Wales as hat Dai , and in New Zealand, as a cheese cutter . Fabrics used for making lids include wool, tweed (most common), and cotton. Less common ingredients may include skin, linen, or corduroy. The inside of the hat is usually coated for comfort and warmth.
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Histori
The style can be traced back to the 14th century in Northern England, when it is more likely to be called a "hat", whose term was replaced by a "hat" before about 1700, except in Scotland, where it continues to be called a "bunnet".
The 1571 Parliament Act to stimulate domestic wool consumption and general trade stipulates that on Sundays and holidays, all men over the age of 6, except the nobility and "men of the level", must wear a woolly hat on taste ill fine. three farthings (3/4 cents) per day. The bill was not revoked until 1597, although today, flat caps have become firmly entrenched as a recognized sign of a noble subject, such as thieves, traders, or apprentices. This style may be the same as the Tudor hat that is still used in some academic dress styles.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, when men dominated wearing some form of headgear, flat hats were generally worn throughout England and Ireland. Versions in finer fabrics are also considered suitable in the countryside for upper-class English. Flat hats worn by fashionable young men in the 1920s. Boys from all classes in England wear flat hats during this period.
In the United States, hats are worn from the 1890s. The hat became more popular at the turn of the 20th century and by that time the boys' standard outfits. They were worn to school, for casual wear, and with clothes. Flat hats are almost always worn with suits in the 1910s and 1920s. Both flat hats and shorts declined in popularity during the 1930s. The flat hat was heading to southern Italy in the late 1800s, possibly carried by British soldiers. In Turkey, flat caps became the main headgear for men after it became a substitute for fez, which was banned by Mustafa Kemal AtatÃÆ'¼k in 1925.
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Academy academy
One of the flat caps worn at the academy is known as the Tudor hood or hat and comes directly from the medieval cape of the 1571 period of the original bill. It still uses ceremonies by members of the academic community in many countries, usually as headgear of doctoral graduates (PhD). Generally, it has a round crown that is soft and rigid, flat full. The hood is often made of black velvet and trimmed, between crown and full, with gold straps and tassels. Some universities choose to trim their hats with colored wires and tassels.
Some stylistic variations of this hat include:
- The Canterbury hat is a soft, flat cloth hat with a deeper round headband at the back rather than in front.
- The Oxford hat has a black band between the crown and full.
- The John Knox hat is a black velvet cap and worn by doctors from certain Scottish universities, as well as Durham University in England, the University of Calgary and the University of Queens in Canada. It is also used by holders of higher doctorates from the University of Liverpool and Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Academic cover, however, is more widely used in academia.
British popular culture
In popular British culture, flat caps are usually associated with older working class men, especially those in Northern England, and the West Country, as personified by Fred Dibnah (Lancashire) and Andy Capp (Teesside) anti-hero comic strip. The strong flat-cap relationship with the working class and the East End of London is illustrated by Jim Branning from EastEnders and Del-Boy Trotter television soap operas Just Fools and Horses. Taxi drivers and buses are often depicted wearing flat hats, as depicted by Gareth Hale and Norman Pace's "London cabbies" (Hale and Pace) sketches. In the BBC show Peaky Blinders, the characters show their membership of the Birmingham gang by sewing a razor blade to the top of their flat cap, which should be used as a weapon. AC/DC vocalist Brian Johnson, originally from Newcastle, usually wears a flat hat on stage and is often inactive. Flat caps can also be taken to show upscale when affecting the quality. "A toff can be a man too without, as it were, losing face."
At the end of the 20th and early 20th century, British public figures including David Beckham, Guy Ritchie, Richard Blackwood and the Prince of Wales wore flat hats.
North American culture
Flat cap hats are associated in popular North American culture (especially the US) with city newsboys (eg, street-corner street vendors), styles sometimes called "newsmen" or "newsie" hats, sometimes referred to as "Kangol "hats" due to merging with brands that make certain flat hat styles.
Current situation
This style remains popular among groups of people in England, Ireland, and North America. These hats are sometimes associated with older men, significantly in South Korea, but have been popular (along with newspaper caps) among some segments of young people, for example, in cities like Boston and Pittsburgh with the Irish-American population the big one. They are also associated with skinheads and Oi! and punk subculture. It has appeared in hip hop subcultures, sometimes worn back-to-front or tilted sideways. It is also very common among men and women in San Francisco, California. In Turkey, it is very popular among men, mostly working class.
The English rugby league team, the nickname of the supporters of Featherstone Rovers is "Flat Cappers", as supporters in the past few years attend a match that wears them as did most of the other team's supporters.
Flat black caps are often combined with a patched sports jacket or leather jacket and dark clothing (sometimes combined with a bee shirt shirt) in popular culture to describe thieves, robbers, or robbers, sometimes with dominoes masks. The Goon comic book character is based on this archetype from the heavily covered streets of cartoons and antique comics.
The Canadian team at the 1998 Winter Olympics wore a red flat hat designed by Roots in the opening ceremony of the nations parade. In addition, the US team at the 2008 Summer Olympics also wore a white flat hat designed by Polo Ralph Lauren during the parade of nations.
In 2011, a flat hat of increased popularity in the UK may be influenced by celebrity photographs - men and women - who wear hats. Clothes & amp; Spencer reported that flat hat sales increased significantly in 2011.
Usually used in the Russian subgroup gopnik .
See also
- British state clothes
- Captain hat
- Coppola (cap)
- Baseball cap
References
External links
- "Cap is suitable for new generation". Fast & amp; Star , July 2007.
- United States Hands boys Handsome Boy Hat
- Ivy vs. Newsboy Caps Cap Flat Information Source
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