A BRIEF HISTORY OF FLAT CAPS
The flat cap was originally manufactured in the lower Mesopotamian valley during the the supremacy of the Ur based civilization of Sumer.
The cloth garment was worn to assist with the balancing of conical earthenware pots that carried a malted-barley based mead beverage.
The mead or beer was the staple refreshment for the builders of the "Temple of Boheimukanazer" and "the Hanging Gardens of Turdoxia"which were constructed upon the flood plains of the mighty and bountiful Euphrates and the Tigris rivers.
The headgear was then conveyed westward, across the Mediterranean sea and via Asia-Minor and the Peloponnese, and was soon in use by the proto-farmers of central Europe, who succeeded in displacing the existing hunter gathers by gradual absorption and interbreeding. However, the evidence left in their burial mounds and cremation urns regularly reveal that a form of flat cap was worn by these advancing wheat munchers as they steadfastly advanced westward in to Europe.
It has been speculated that by wearing the cloth flat cap, the farmers were able to deflect the increasing solar radiation from the sun as the great ice sheets continued to retreat to the north, thus giving an unstoppable advantage over the hat-less, and sun burnt hunter gatherers.
Soon Flat Caps were being worn at latitudes far further north than ever before, and in time the garment was adopted by the clog wearing inhabitants of northern Britain, who adapted the headgear for everyday use, whether sporting, sexual or for gainful employment.
After further adoption by the "upper class nit" during the later Victorian period, the garment fell in to partial disuse, until revitalised by the English Football hooligan in the later part of the twentieth century.
Curiously, the wearing of a flat cap soon became especially important if you wanted "a bit of bully" in the 1980's, although this peculiar but iconic use soon fell out of fashion. At this juncture the Flat Cap began to be adopted by a variety of organisations throughout the UK and to this day is the emblem of of choice and badge of membership, for societies and clubs throughout the British Ilse.
The flat cap was originally manufactured in the lower Mesopotamian valley during the the supremacy of the Ur based civilization of Sumer.
The cloth garment was worn to assist with the balancing of conical earthenware pots that carried a malted-barley based mead beverage.
The mead or beer was the staple refreshment for the builders of the "Temple of Boheimukanazer" and "the Hanging Gardens of Turdoxia"which were constructed upon the flood plains of the mighty and bountiful Euphrates and the Tigris rivers.
The headgear was then conveyed westward, across the Mediterranean sea and via Asia-Minor and the Peloponnese, and was soon in use by the proto-farmers of central Europe, who succeeded in displacing the existing hunter gathers by gradual absorption and interbreeding. However, the evidence left in their burial mounds and cremation urns regularly reveal that a form of flat cap was worn by these advancing wheat munchers as they steadfastly advanced westward in to Europe.
Soon Flat Caps were being worn at latitudes far further north than ever before, and in time the garment was adopted by the clog wearing inhabitants of northern Britain, who adapted the headgear for everyday use, whether sporting, sexual or for gainful employment.
After further adoption by the "upper class nit" during the later Victorian period, the garment fell in to partial disuse, until revitalised by the English Football hooligan in the later part of the twentieth century.
Curiously, the wearing of a flat cap soon became especially important if you wanted "a bit of bully" in the 1980's, although this peculiar but iconic use soon fell out of fashion. At this juncture the Flat Cap began to be adopted by a variety of organisations throughout the UK and to this day is the emblem of of choice and badge of membership, for societies and clubs throughout the British Ilse.
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