Showing posts with label Side Cap. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Side Cap. Show all posts

Saturday 31 July 2021

Dancing Pallbearers Hat

 This hat or rather the dancing pallbearers that wear it gained fame after BBC news feature 

According to Wikipedia the pallbearers who are from Ghana are locally referred to as the 'Nana Otafrija Pallbearing and Waiting Service.


The black hat is a typical foldable military field cap in its shape


I have no idea if this hat has an origin outside its fame as a hat worn by the dancing pallbearers, but I can only find it against cosplay adverts



This hat came to me via a friend who knows I collect hats and was enjoying the pallbearer memes on youtube.





Tuesday 7 November 2017

GI Side Cap

This is reproduction WW2 American GI side cap 


Apparently GI originally meant military equipment made from galvanised iron in WW1, but eventually became anything that was army general issue or government issue and on from that became a word to describe a soldier from the United States of America.


This cap sport 3 stars which means I'm a commander.


This style of hat in the US can also be known as a Campaign cap, flight cap, garrison hat, fore-and-aft cap, envelope cap, overseas cap. It also has some less polite names one being piss-cutter. 


Thursday 2 November 2017

Side Cap

A side cap is a fold-able military cap with straight sides, no brim and hollow crown which when worn forms a very distinctive shape.


In the UK its officially known as field service cap, in the US its called a garrison cap or flight cap.


The best feature of this cap is can easily be folded into a pocket, over the belt or under the shoulder strap of a military uniform. 


This cap sports a Russian badge so probably from a Russian unit but since I found it at cat boot I no idea for sure.