Anyone wearing s Fez these days?

[BinkieBaumont]

At $15.00 (AUD) it would cost you more money Not to have one

https://www.tophatters.com.au/shop/product/sweida_fez_feltex/119

 

[cookie]

I also have a red wool fez with no tassle that I purchased in the old medina in Fez this year, because you have to have fez from Fez .

I have one purchased in the 80s from the Medina of Fez (recreated at EPCOT Florida version)

 

[carldelo]

You're in the right neighborhood

All this fez talk has got me wanting a smoking cap...

Here you go, for the hat lover who already has absolutely everything else:
http://www.lockhatters.co.uk/Smoking_Caps__amp__Fez-c32.aspx

A fez and TWO smoking caps - dig the prices on those lids - through the roof, but you could get it to keep your coke company...

BTW, VHS has a whole page of fezzes - go figure: http://www.villagehatshop.com/fez.html

 

[Maguire]

Some of my pakistani friends say they know REALLY old people over there who may sport a fez, but that they are seen as an oddity even there, although i know a few egyptian copts who still own fez hats and wear them for specific events. I wore a fez in my senior year of Highschool as part of a bet. I like the hats personally, there is something strangely scholarly looking about them.

 

[Macheath]

If I were a tall, portly gentleman with a good amount of gravitas, I would wear one:

 

[Mr. Godfrey]

If I were a tall, portly gentleman with a good amount of gravitas, I would wear one:

Yes, that's just what I mean I need a light linen suit now, I'm all set

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lol

 

[Mr. Godfrey]

A few Fez's here and there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB-HI9fQBE0

 

[scottyrocks]

My brother is an ex-pat, and lived in Egypt for about 10 years. He brought me back a fez that was handmade either there or in the region. There's a sticker inside it in Arabic. Dont know what it says.

 

[quintox]

I have a few I wear on occasions

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[Mr. Godfrey]

I have two.

First, I have the burgandy velvet type. with black tassle that I purchased while in Marrakesh a few years ago aimed at the tourist but hey thats why I'm there.

I also have a red wool fez with no tassle that I purchased in the old medina in Fez this year, because you have to have fez from Fez .

Here they are:

 

[immortaldiamond]

All this fez talk has got me wanting a smoking cap...

Try downstairs at Turnbull & Asser. Some wonderful colours. I have a couple of smoking caps from Locks, but I had them remove the tassel. Then they are perfectly wearable on the street. My black one was admired (at least to my face!) at Glyndebourne last year.

 

[Charlie Huang]

But smoking caps aren't meant to be worn in the street!

 

[immortaldiamond]

But smoking caps aren't meant to be worn in the street!

But no one in this forum is doing what was 'meant to be done' when these hats were invented! Landed gentry and above would only be able to wear a topper, you couldn't leave the house without some hat on your head etc. None of the women on here would have had a vote, and I'd be in prison for being gay.
I think, although there's lots of good-hearted nostalgia going on here, if any of us were actually transported back to those times we'd all feel pretty stifled. The styles are great, but I have a sneaky feeling we like being as counter-cultural now as the early hatless youth of the 1920s did then.

 

[Bingles]

But no one in this forum is doing what was 'meant to be done' when these hats were invented! Landed gentry and above would only be able to wear a topper, you couldn't leave the house without some hat on your head etc. None of the women on here would have had a vote, and I'd be in prison for being gay.
I think, although there's lots of good-hearted nostalgia going on here, if any of us were actually transported back to those times we'd all feel pretty stifled. The styles are great, but I have a sneaky feeling we like being as counter-cultural now as the early hatless youth of the 1920s did then.

I tend to agree that one's "look" depends on one's attitude and if they can "pull it off". If you can rock the fez be it at home or on the streets.. go for it! Nothing wrong with a little individuality.

I constantly find myself debating between "would they have done it then?" and "but it seems to look good this way NOW." -- and I'm glad they can't throw me in prison either.... though then I might actually be able to score a date. [huh]

 

[Mr. Godfrey]

Fez anyone?

Around 2.00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEZx-HtOLjM

 

[Highlander]

Great posts, I've been thinking about a smoking cap myself. I'll do some searching now thanks,

 

[BriarWolf]

I wear a smoking cap 'round the house, does that count?

I recently became the proud owner of a hand stitched one of a kind from Boyd Miles Sutlery, the C14 as pictured here to be precise. It fits like a dream and I can't recommend them highly enough.

http://www.boydmiles.com/Smoking-Caps.html

 

[jhe888]

I have taken the tassel off as it is too heavy.

 

[hatsRme]

Somewhere here I posted photos of some of the Fez's that My father bought in Morocco in the 70's. Some have a beautiful straw structure inside, onto which the felt is formed; others had only a cardboard backing inside.

Like you, I don't travel far from home with it on, but did wear it on a bicycle ride down the road to our neighbor's in VT.

 

[Warden]

At last my fez arrived from across the pond, been waiting so long my son had to film the grand opening of the fez package.

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