[MR] that cool red italian hat

[Susan Tillery]

You get something very close to the dixie cap if you simply turn up the 
brim on a Monmouth cap but that would give you a rounded crown.  The 
first picture looked like it had a flat top.  The Monmouth cap is 
knitted and fulled.

Aela / Su

kjworz at comcast.net wrote:
 > As a prematurely retired Naval Officer, we in the Navy, both enlisted
and officers, called it the Dixie Cup. I'm sure the proper name is told
to sailors at boot camp, but I never heard it.
 >
 > Constructing a repro from that model would be easier, rather than
felt. I just read an article in an Early American Industries Association
publication about the making of felt hats. It is a 20-some odd step
process. Nicer felt hats were made from beaver, mink, nutrina, and
rabbit, in descending order of quality. Wool is next.
 >
 > Making repro felt hats using period methods would indeed be VERY
 > cool.
 >
 >
 >
 > --
 > -Chris Schwartz,
 > Ex-Brewer
 > Silver Spring, MD
 >
 >> I looked at the image, and I'm not sure how much help this is, but
 >> if you find someone wiling to try a recreation of it they might
 >> want to look at the United States Navy cover for an idea of how it
 >> might go together. I wish I knew the specific terminology, but as I
 >> am a Marine we just call it the "popeye" hat or the "dog dish".
 >