On hats...

[Savage]

If everybody was naked,


exept of one, only with a hat,
it would probably be the chief of them...



In this cold climate, it is also a good thing to wear
something on things that sticks out.



People should wear more hats... Like these



Remember the myths of magical hats? Its true.



An example,



I once tried a hat that had belonged to Gøring. I weared it for about 5 minutes. I got posessed for 3 days, and even my german was improved... I`ll never try anybodys hat again... On the other hand, a great and famous painter held a birthday party for me at my studio, and left his hat as a gift...We had listened to Mahlers "The wizards apprentice " ...It was later stolen by a female soapstar.



There are also other examples on mighty forces that may dwell in hats,
in other sagas and adventures...And in many religions it has metafunctions...



It protects against the climate.
It is a social signal.
It is a signal to the spirits.



As we know from cartoons, some spirits are often streaming a little higher in the aires, so they are looking down at the caps of humans.



Roofs are no problem.



If the cap contains spiritual or magical signs or symbols... Most religions are into that...



And this one is rather classy

[Menydh]

Andalusia, Southern Spain.

Sevillian hat


Cordovan hat


Sombrero Calañero (hat of the bandoleros, highwaymen of the sierras of Andalusia)

[Menydh]

Panama hat. These well known and elegant hats are not original from Panama as the name suggests, but from Ecuador.

[Menydh]

Originally Posted by Thore Hund

The beret is not typical from "France", but from Occitania (S. France) and Spain.

The red beret from the Spanish Traditionalist Requete.

[Ferran]

Not a hat but some kind of "beret", the Catalan barretina:




Wearing it is not an act of glamour, but a compromise:

El Timbaler del Bruc, a mytical figure of the Peninsular War (1808), who fought in the Battle of El Bruc.


Catalan soldiers in the defense of Cuba, one of the episodes of the Spanish-American War (1898).


Catalan troops in the war with Morocco (1859/60), led by the also Catalan Joan Prim Prats, a bloody liberal, but a good general nevertheless.

[Menydh]

Originally Posted by Ferran

Not a hat but some kind of "beret", the Catalan barretina:

A barretina in the traditional costume of the Island of Ibiza (Balearic Islands):

[Savage]

[Savage]

Aleutian ceremonial hunting hats More at source



Definitively the spiritual kind...