Balloon cap
The boy cap is a cap , in contrast to the flat cap not flat, but a balloon-like hollowed roof has. This usually consists of eight parts, often crowned with a button or a small pompom in the middle . As with all peaked caps, a mostly flexible peak is attached to the front. In English, this type of hat is called Newsboy Cap , Eight Piece Cap or Gatsby Cap .
The hat is usually made of somewhat stiffer tweed , felt or cord . On some models, the umbrella is supplemented by cold protection in the neck and around the ears.
development
The balloon cap style was very popular among young and adult men in Europe and North America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Especially in the 1910s to 1920s, this type of hat was considered a worker hat or hat of the lower classes. Many photos from this period show that these caps were worn by newspaper boys as well as dock workers, steel workers, shipbuilders, farmers, beggars, criminals, artisans and merchants.
Boys and men from the upper classes wore this hat primarily for leisure activities such as golf .
From around the middle of the 20th century, the balloon cap lost its reputation as a poor hat and later became a fashion accessory. As a result, this hat shape was suitable as an expression of one's own personality or even as a trademark, for example with the Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser , the American singer Gregory Porter and the English singer Brian Johnson .
Friedensreich Hundertwasser, 1998
Gregory Porter, 2013
Brian Johnson, 2008
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See e.g. B .: Farewell to the balloon cap . In: Die Welt from June 13, 2005 and: From the balloon cap to the silk shirt: the path of the traditional party SPD . In: Die Zeit from June 19, 1992
- ↑ Newsboy cap - from the poor hat : Balloon cap - from the poor hat to a fashion accessory. In: germanblogs.de. July 1, 2009, accessed February 21, 2019 .
- ↑ Der Spiralenmaler , obituary of the WDR on the 5-year anniversary of Hundertwasser's death, February 19, 2005
- ↑ Superstar without airs . In: Donaukurier, November 10, 2014