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Wearing a fez

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Sam Craig

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For westerners ... besides Shriners ... a fez is like an extention of the smoking cap that the Victorians enjoyed, which was, itself, an extention of the pillbox hat of the British and British-inspired American officer corps.

The fez was an affectation that a Victorian or Edwardian gentleman would adopt in the house of an evening while he relaxed with a dressing gown and his pipe, reading a gentleman's book or the daily news.

It has little use in today's world, unfortunately, which opens the door for hat wearers to reintroduce it.

There's the challenge.

Sam
 

Brad Bowers

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I wear one on the days I lecture about the Ottoman Empire. It's a cheap tourist version I picked up from Turkey on eBay, but it serves the purpose.

Brad
 
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I spent the summer in Morrocco in the mid-seventies. Last summer, in the heat of a "best hat" competition with a neighbor, I wore a genuine straw-foundation Morroccan Fez while riding down the road on my bicycle. I was, I think, the only person wearing a fez in that part of Vermont that day.
HERE is where you can buy (what I think are) the real McCoy:
http://www.shop-morocco.com/9017straw-fez--tarboosh-733-p.asp
And, yes, I won the competition... that day.
 

Stanley Doble

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All I know about fez etiquette is that the green fez is reserved for Mohammedans who have made the pilgrimage to Mecca.
 

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