Wearing a fez

[Shangas]

If one is built the way I am, one can wear a fez and a white linen suit to a screening of Casablanca.

Sidney Greenstreet, I presume?

The Fez is an interesting hat, but I don't think I could wear one. It wouldn't fit my hairstyle.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

King Farouk of Egypt

 

[Sam Craig]

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

 

[Terry "The Hat"]

 

[Brad Bowers]

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

 

[hatsRme]

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.

 

[Wally_Hood]

I have a fez I purchased while in Fez, Morocco. I wear it every decade or so.

 

[Stanley Doble]

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