Fez hats.

[coachvu]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

I don't feel a smoking cap can be worn outside of the home whereas a fez can. I believe one can see fez hats being worn in Egypt and possibly Morroco.
They are at least named after Fez, Morocco, right? My friend visited Fez and made sure to buy a fez as soon as he got there. They are indeed all over the place.

 

[Rolo]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

I suppose the Persian Lamb hat might be the best compromise.

I think a karakul is a pretty good looking hat.

 

[Stax]

Originally Posted by coachvu

They are at least named after Fez, Morocco, right? My friend visited Fez and made sure to buy a fez as soon as he got there. They are indeed all over the place.

In '98, I spent a month in Morocco, including four days in Fez. The only people I saw wearing a Fez were doormen.

 

[whnay.]

Do you have plans to purchase a midget motorcycle as well?

 

[dopey]

I know a young boy whose primping and preening in front of the mirror is enhanced by the wearing of a fez while he murmurs about how smart and sophisticated he is. Each day, he closes the bathroom door saddened at the thought that his dreams are grander than the lonely garret he fills with thrift shop castoffs and clippings from European magazines. He dries his tears toadying up to the truants in the high school parking lot. Sometimes he makes a particularly witty remark about how much cooler they are then all the other mean kids, and they give him a cigarette and let him wear their jackets. But the fez is his alone.

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by dopey

and they give him a cigarette
A clove cigarette? All the pseuds I knew in junior high smoked cloves.

 

[RJman]

Originally Posted by dopey

But the fez is his alone.
I am reminded of a passage involving a Harrovian boater in Stephen Fry's Monte Cristo update The Stars' Tennis Balls.

 

[Tomasso]

Originally Posted by Stax

The only people I saw wearing a Fez were doormen.
Same with Cairo.

 

[Ivan Kipling]

Mounia Orhozemane, modeling YSL Rive Gauche, wearing fez. Fall / winter, 1984.

 

[EL72]

Many Jewish Morrocan immigrants in Montreal throw traditional hennah parties to celebrate weddings and bar-mitzvahs. Complete with traditional Morrrocan garb, Arabian decor, music, belly dancing, couscous, and hennah paste smeared on the palm of your hand for good luck, they are lots of fun. I have a traditional red one but I think as a groom I wore an off-white colored fez during part of my wedding hennah celebration.

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by dopey

I know a young boy whose primping and preening in front of the mirror is enhanced by the wearing of a fez while he murmurs about how smart and sophisticated he is. Each day, he closes the bathroom door saddened at the thought that his dreams are grander than the lonely garret he fills with thrift shop castoffs and clippings from European magazines. He dries his tears toadying up to the truants in the high school parking lot. Sometimes he makes a particularly witty remark about how much cooler they are then all the other mean kids, and they give him a cigarette and let him wear their jackets. But the fez is his alone.
This isn't your personal blog so refrain from posting self-reflections. Besides, I thought your forte was making anti-Semitic remarks?

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by Manton

A clove cigarette? All the pseuds I knew in junior high smoked cloves.
I'm sure your cloves and Cliff's Notes Machiavelli responded well to the cafes of Southern California.

 

[bengal-stripe]

There is only one person ever, who could wear a fez: the comedian Tommy Cooper (1921-1984)

http://www.chortle.co.uk/comics/t/57/tommy_cooper

 

[RJman]

Originally Posted by bengal-stripe

There is only one person ever, who could wear a fez: the comedian Tommy Cooper (1921-1984)
You forget Donald Fagen and Walter Becker.

 

[lawyerdad]

Originally Posted by Ivan Kipling

Mounia Orhozemane, modeling YSL Rive Gauche, wearing fez. Fall / winter, 1984.
Nice. She looks fantastic.