A Fez I Found…

[Farkas]

Hi Gents,

I love taking a punt on a hunch…

 

I saw this job lot of ‘hats’ 👇

There were no other angles or details available. The two alpine hats caught my eye at first but then I noticed the Fez looked nice too.. There was stitching around the crown for starters.

 

I started to imagine ‘what if…’ this and that. So I have had a punt, the alpine hats being the ‘consolation prize’ should the Fez have a sticker saying ‘2017’ or similar inside.

 

Well, it’s arrived and now I have to put it up on here for opinions 👍

From the front 👇

 

Some 1st impressions…

Its definitely been worn.

its not ‘newly made’.

It has no makers mark or label though the lining and sweatband it presumably had are missing…

 

 

Originally the tassle was held in place to keep it to the rear

tassel group was held in place under the long stitch at the centre/rear of the crown.

 

& there is a black circular cloth piece at the base of the tassel, affixed before the tassels not around them

I didn’t notice this cloth in the picture in the listing , I only noticed it when I had it to look at in the flesh.

 

 

So ‘why…’ I hear you ask ‘..,are you showing it here?’  well, it’s because I’ve just read this 👇

and I found two details particularly of interest.

- Tassel had to be worn to the back 👍

&

- Tassel was mounted on a rosette 👍

I’ve looked through all the Google pictures of Fez’s I can find and none have the black cloth base. All I’ve seen had tassels that are loose however I would expect that is not unique as the black cloth.

 

So Gents, without any real indication that it was & really just because I wanted it to be something, I bought it…

but am I that lucky?
 

Does anyone think I may have bought a ‘KuK / Bosnian Fez’  ??

 

Any thoughts or comments welcome as always… 🥴

 

cheers

tony 🍻

 

“Some you win, some just make you look stupid”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Farkas]

So Gents, obviously I’m aware I got a bit ahead of myself but nothing wrong with a bit of wishful thinking… 🍻

 

The cloth at the base may have been wrapped around the base of the tassels, I can see mine has been tied with a light thread so I’m not sure it’s as distinguishing a feature as I first thought, anyway…

 

first little update,

the cardboard lining isn’t fixed and I think was added by someone to give the fez some rigidity.., it now looks like this 👇

 

Second little update,

as I was searching for information I found several pictures, below is an example 👇

A close up 👇

 

You’ll notice the sprig of something attached to the fez, well… it reminded me of this 👇

 

I bought it years ago for 99p cos it was with other items that were from the Tirol area. It’s been in an envelope ever since.

 

Now I can see it has a fitting & it is a hat ornament…

So regardless of whether or not the fez is Bosnian… and whether or not the ‘sprig’ ornament would belong on it even if it was.., I think I’ll let them keep each other company from now on, why not… 😊

 

tony 🍻