Flat cap
The flat cap or spool cap is a cap , which, unlike the balloon hat has a flat roof. The beret-like top protrudes forwards over a mostly flexible, sewn-through umbrella. The hat can be folded up and carried in a pocket. The name goes back to the old Berlin term "slider" for foreman . It is also called sports cap, casquette, bat cap and Schlägerp (f) anne. In the south-west of Germany ( Saarland , Palatinate , Rhine-Main area ) they are called "Batschkapp".
The flat cap was especially popular in the 1930s. As part of work clothing, it used to have a protective function; it avoids, for example, wood chips in the hair or hair in the machine. Today it can also be found in formal hunting and sportswear.
On some models, eye protection is supplemented by cold protection in the neck and around the ears. The hat is partly made of stiffer tweed , felt or cord ; it is then no longer possible to combine them.
With fictional figures like Bodo Bach or Heinz Becker , the flat cap is an integral part of the costume .
literature
- Tillmann Prüfer: Flat cap . In: Die Zeit , No. 4/2008
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Flat cap. In: Digital dictionary of the German language . Retrieved September 19, 2017