Cossacks?

[abrocketsfan]

I'm looking for a warm hat for the winter (and coming winters) and saw this on brooksbrothers.com:

Any opinions?

 

[robin]

An astrakhan hat? LabelKing would approve. What else do you need?

 

[rockyfella]

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by robin

An astrakhan hat? LabelKing would approve. What else do you need?
I have a brown one.

 

[acidboy]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

I have a brown one.

Of course you do.

 

[Flambeur]

i approve and want one.

isnt that persian lamb?

 

[laphroaig]

Originally Posted by Flambeur

isnt that persian lamb?
No. That's Brezhnev.

 

[erdavis]

 

[Schnurretiger]

Great responses so far!

Personally, I wouldn't buy it. Reminds me of a poodle and I don't like poodles.

 

[mack11211]

I love persian lamb for the Soviet Grampa steez.

 

[globetrotter]

I have one, and a rabbit fur hat, too.

 

[abrocketsfan]

Is there a more "western hemisphere" looking version of the cossack?

 

[koolhistorian]

Nope, in fact if I remember well it is a Persian fur hat that had spread from India to Eastern Europe (in Romania it was very popular with gents from the older generation . my grandfather had one also). The main problem that I have with these hats - aside the sartorial one, here I would look like an old fart - is that it is produced from unborn lambs - so figure the process of harvesting the fur ... It is usually referred as "Astrakhan" or "Karakul" (the fur) and the hat can be either with a lower rise to a towering high rise - like a normal trilby to a top-hat!

 

[Journeyman]

Hamid Karzai, the President of Afghanistan, wears a slightly more urbane version of the karakul hat - although it is still made from fleece from lamb foetuses: http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/press-...estnatotaliban