Pork pie (hat)
A Porkpie , even Porkpie Hat or Pork Pie ( English : pork pie hat from English pork pie; in Austria as well. Reindl called, of casserole ) is a round hat with a flat Hutkrone with disc bulge ( "duck pond"), a narrow brim , a slightly curved edge with a cut edge and a monochrome grosgrain ribbon (hat band) with a side bow. The materials used are straw , felt , cotton , canvas or silk .
history
The pork pie was created in the middle of the 19th century , but it can be traced back to hat shapes from the Middle Ages . In women's fashion, smaller pork pies were often worn tipped over the forehead. As an elegant, casual men's hat, the pork pie was worn on all occasions, from sports suits to tuxedos .
The hat shape gained particular fame in the mid- 1920s through Buster Keaton . Keaton created his own shape of the pork pie. A fedora felt hat served as a base , which he flattened just above the hat band.
After the Second World War , the popularity of the pork pie declined somewhat, but lived on in the jazz and blues scene. A well-known carrier was the jazz saxophonist Lester Young . On the occasion of his death on March 15, 1959, Charles Mingus dedicated the blues composition Goodbye Pork Pie Hat to him .
As a symbol of social status and group membership, the pork pie was also represented in subcultures of the 1960s , such as that of the Jamaican rude boy and in the 1970s in the ska music scene , as well as in the anti-racist skinhead movement in the late 1980s Germany .
In the 1971 film The French Connection , Gene Hackman played the role of "Popeye" Doyle in a pork pie. An action drama from 1981 also bears the title: Take care, pork pie .
Bryan Cranston's character Walter White wears a pork pie in the AMC series Breaking Bad when he appears as his alter ego Heisenberg , whose person is associated with the hat.
In the present , celebrity actors like Brad Pitt and musicians like Sean Combs (Puff Daddy / P. Diddy) and Justin Timberlake have been spotted with Porkpies again.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ingrid Loschek : Reclam's fashion and costume dictionary . 6th edition. Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-15-010818-5 , p. 408 .
- ↑ a b Thomas Rusche : Small SØR Breviary of Clothing Culture: The Guide for the Lord . 1st edition. Lit Verlag, Münster 1991, ISBN 3-89473-101-X , p. 193 .
- ↑ a b Encyclopedia Britannica: Porkpie , accessed August 2, 2015
- ↑ Eleanor Keaton, Jeffrey Vance: Buster Keaton Remembered . Abrams, New York NY 2001, ISBN 0-8109-4227-5 , pp. 213 .
