A short hat’s history
In ancient Egypt the pharaoh held the wig with a red cap or a white tiara, while in Mesopotamia it was usual wearing fur turbans or caps, as well as in ancient Palestine, the Jewish priests wore a white conical hat. Women in the Minoan Age devised various and bizarre forms, but in ancient Greece and Rome the hat lost all of its importance.
If all history’s inventions were born from a sense of extreme necessity, so in the same way the hat was born.
Because of the necessity to shelter from the cold, rain, sun rays, since ancient times people used hoods, veils, caps, hats, turbans of every kind, until the introduction of the real hat in mid-1400′, a felt hat featuring a cover for the head and a visor.
It seems that the first man who has worn a real hat it was Charles VIII who, during his visit to Rome he showed off the new accessory. The hat enjoyed its heyday in 1700 with Louis XV, who launched the fashion of the tricorn hat with three points, which became the official hat of military uniforms, and for English, French and Venetian ladies, it became a symbol of coquetry and pride, so that they started to enrich it with feathers, flowers, and stuffed birds.
In 1806 a London hatter, Arrington, gave birth to the cylinder, which successfully became the symbol of the city.
The nineteenth and twentieth century’s fashion gave much prominence to this clothing accessory, the was a symbol of style, personality and social level. Each model, elegant, casual, sporty, functional or purely aesthetic, could speak and describe the person who wore it.
Nowadays the hat, despite several periods of disuse, is slowly coming back into fashion, because it represents a touch of individuality, far from its initial tradition, and it is becoming less functional but more fashion, an essential accessory, almost an extension of the dress, thanks to the new and emerging trends proposed by the designers.
Una breve storia del cappello
Nell’antico Egitto il faraone ricopriva la parrucca con un berretto rosso o una tiara bianca, invece in Mesopotamia erano diffusi turbanti o berretti di pelliccia, così come nell’antica Palestina i sacerdoti ebrei indossavano un cappello conico bianco. Se nell’età minoica le donne cretesi idearono forme varie e bizzarre, nell’antica Grecia e nell’antica Roma invece l’uso del cappello perse ogni importanza.
Dato che tutte le invenzioni della storia nascono da un senso di estrema necessità, nacque così anche il cappello.
Avendo la necessità di ripararsi dal freddo, dalla pioggia, dai raggi del sole, fin dall’antichità la gente si è servita di cappucci, veli, cuffie, berretti, turbanti di ogni genere, fino all’introduzione a metà del 1400 del vero e proprio cappello, il copricapo di feltro caratterizzato da una copertura per l’intera testa ed una visiera.
Il primo ad indossare un cappello pare sia stato Carlo VIII, che durante la sua visita a Roma fece sfoggio del nuovo accessorio, il quale conobbe la sua massima fioritura nel 1700 con Luigi XV che lanciò la moda del tricorno, cappello a tre punte, che diventò il copricapo ufficiale delle divise militari e, tra le signore inglesi, francesi e veneziane divenne vero e proprio simbolo di civetteria e vanto, iniziandolo poi ad arricchirlo con piume, fiori e, perché no, uccelli imbalsamati.
Nel 1806 un cappellaio londinese, Arrington, diede vita al cilindro, che con il tempo divenne uno dei simboli della città inglese e conobbe dunque uno smisurato successo.
La moda dell’Ottocento e del Novecento diede grande risalto a questo capo di abbigliamento, simbolo di stile, di personalità, di livello sociale. Ogni modello, elegante, casual, sportivo, funzionale o puramente estetico, poteva parlare e descrivere colui che lo aveva indosso.
Oggi il cappello, nonostante vari periodi di disuso, sta lentamente tornando alla ribalta, rappresenta un tocco di individualità, ben lontano dalla sua tradizione iniziale, diventando sempre meno funzionale e sempre più vero e proprio fatto di moda, accessorio fondamentale, quasi un prolungamento dell’abito, grazie alle sempre nuove tendenze proposte dagli stilisti.



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