How About A Fez Instead?

[Twitch]

The other day I was stopped for a triffic light ad glanced over at city workers doing something on the roadside and there was a decent looking guy about 30ish with his ball cap on backwards like he was ready for a big time, hip hop hootenanny. He just was so mature he just looked like a jackass.

Then it hit me. All these baseball caps with unused and unappreciated bills. The wearers might as well be sporting a fez. At least the tassle is unidirectional. Whaddya thinK?lol

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I'm not yet ready to join "the Sons of the Desert" -- even if Laurel, Hardy, and Charley Chase are members.

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[J. M. Stovall]

I like a nice fez.

 

[maintcoder]

Now that is a great look, J.M!

 

[Marc Chevalier]

A fez just says Ottoman civil servant to me.

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[Tomasso]

Very Nice! But..............

.............isn't that a smoking cap?

 

[J. M. Stovall]

This gentleman makes and sells his custom made fez headwear.

www.fez-o-rama.com

I have no affiliation with him besides the fact I want him to design a fez for an art group I'm in.

Maybe it looks like a smoking hat because his head is tilted back, they look taller in the gallery section on his site.

 

[Haversack]

It is unfortunate that the Viennese firm of Habig und Sohn went out of business back in the 1970s. This family of hatmakers had been making most of the world's high-quality fur felt fezs (or tarboosh, to give them their Egyptian name) They exported them throughout the former Ottoman Empire from Casablanca in the west to Basra in the east. There used to be some signifigance to the colour of the fez as well. Red was the most common. Black however, signified that one was a lawyer. As countries became secular republics as opposed to monarchies, the fez was usually outlawed.

Haversack.

 

[Cobden]

I have more tarboushes then I have fedora's

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Don't we all?


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[LizzieMaine]

You must admit, they *do* look sharp.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

On Charley Chase, yes.

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[Maj.Nick Danger]

A fez.

Reminds me of my archenemy,...Rocky Rococo. lol

 

[Phil]

A fez is one of those hats that you fit into. Either you look good in it or you don't. There's really no inbetween.

 

[Indy Magnoli]

A fez just says Ottoman civil servant to me.

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Amen to that!

Kind regards,
Magnoli

 

[Absinthe_1900]

And they go so well with those "little cars".

 

[CharlieH.]

I like a nice fez.

All my life I've wanted to welocme guests to my joint looking like that, only without sunglasses and with a pipe - the kind that blows bubbles.

 

[Shaul-Ike Cohen]

All my life I've wanted to welocme guests to my joint looking like that, only without sunglasses and with a pipe - the kind that blows bubbles.

What's keeping you from it?

 

[BellyTank]

A fez just says Ottoman civil servant to me.

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Well, the wearing of Fezzes (in Turkey)was banned in 1925, by Atatürk, so maybe pre-1925 Ottoman Civil Servant.

I don't agree anyway-

I think of Sydney Greenstreet in Casablanca and I like the look.

A nice linen suit and a dark red Fez is a great look for North Africa.


















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[Marc Chevalier]

Well, the wearing of Fezzes (in Turkey)was banned in 1925, by Atat?ºrk, so maybe pre-1925 Ottoman Civil Servant.

When I said "Ottoman", I meant a citizen of the Ottoman Empire, which collapsed in 1920. Hence, to my mind, saying "pre-1925 Ottoman" would have been redundant.


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