Important Drive Facts about this hat
And why James May have to like this thing!
Dedicated To James May. who can consider himself a real racer and driver of luxury cars in a cap. It gives him a democratic look, unique charm of retro and antique values. Now he's kind of like an expensive bottle of wine, which can become over time, only better. Driver's cap is not just a piece of clothing or fashion, it is a figurative expressiveness to every word, it is a new kind of your eyes on the usual things and events around. And in the car with this cap there is a special atmosphere, With this cap you want to do something wonderful, eccentric or you may wish to live like in old movies. This cap is like a Cup of coffee. James may it looks more cheerful than usual :) and his comments have found a special liveliness and note, relevance :) Thank you for the video :)
For all DriveTribe people and James May
and for Richard Hammond!
And for Jeremy Clarkson! ... I have done translation from magazine "Fashion History" with article about driver's cap. I'am waiting that you will like it. It may be fun and interesting. I also post here photographies from this magazine.
Sorry for my English :) I'am from Belorus. (Country near Russia)
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For a long time caps remained the most democratic and the most widespread headdress. They were worn by men of all social strata in all corners of the world: Italian peasants and French soldiers, American workers and Soviet engineers. The visor protected eyes from the sun that was highly appreciated by all who had to work in the open air. The flat cap is especially loved by drivers, racing car owners, and before the war it was a kind of symbol of progress, speed and risk.
But in the fifties the caps suddenly began to disappear from the men's wardrobe. The culprit was the new men's hairstyles: high kok or back combing, fixed strict hair part with hair spray,
Richard Hammond and his hairstyle back combing.
the beauty of which could violate the headdress. And indeed became optional to cover his head. From the most mass male accessory cap has turned into an informal addition. Life became more measured, fewer men worked under the scorching sun, more and more time inhabitants of city jungle carried out in close cages of offices.
For much time cap did not give up their positions in the Soviet Union. If we look at the pictures of those years, we find that the flat caps are still worn by everyone. Summer hats adorn the heads of tourists instead of Panama, and fur caps with flaps that protect them in the winter. Even the party elite preferred caps: after all, this headdress was worn by the leader of the world proletariat - always and everywhere, if you believe the countless monuments to Lenin.
Lenin with cap. If he not in cap...
... he takes it in his hand.
As soon as the cap "died" vacant place "most democratic headdress" took the baseball cap. It was invented in the 50s, and the cut was based on elements of the same cap and jockey helmet.
Known the exact birth year of baseball caps - 1954. Before baseball players covered a head from the sun than it is necessary: from caps to straw canotiers, the uniform standard of a form didn't exist. The company New Era was offered a Major League baseball USA headdress called New Era 59 Fifty. He had a hard and long enough visor, and the body consisted of six "petals".Front has a sewn or glued team logo.
The baseball cap was quickly approved as a mandatory element of uniforms. Fans immediately began to buy caps of their teams, and a new hat "went to the people". And like the cap was the favorite of drivers, baseball caps will be loved by truckers. They even had their own style with a mesh insert on the back of the head.
James May. Is this baseball cap he worn only for drivetribe?
Flat caps were not pushed on the forehead or on the back of the head, as it then began to do about baseball caps - they always wore it straight.
Like this. USSR photo from magazine "History of Fashion"
Initially, the flat cap was made from cheap cloth, and wore her simple laborers. But in 20-e years have appeared expensive options are made of leather and wool, and caps ceased to shun even the aristocrats. So, this headdress could be seen on the head of the English king Edward VII. Flat cap regularly appeared on the pages of fashion magazines.
Child King Edward VII - Franz Xaver Winterhalter
(I can't find king's picture in cap. But from this paint of king Edward VII I think James May looks like the king! They both are pretty and nice, charming and simple.)
Picture from "History of Fashion" magazine. John Bull is a collective image of a typical Englishman (humorous personification), one of the personifications of the image of Britain.The character evolved from a rustic farmer, which appeared in a pamphlet written by an English publicist, John Arbuthnot's "History of John bull»
Picture from "History of Fashion" magazine
Cap has found such love among drivers of different vehicles that it has been called a "driver's cap".
Favorite creature for man in cap. Picture from "History of Fashion" magazine
Popularity baseball in America was such is, that a new fashion immediately caught on to all: men, women, children. Unlike caps, new hats immediately began to make in bright colors.
Picture from "History of Fashion" magazine
Picture from "History of Fashion" magazine
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Interesting. I hadn't really considered the elevation of caps from the peasantry to the toffs.
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