Subject: Re: to cap it all
From: Suzanne Morine (suzannem@dimensional.com)
Date: Fri Jul 06 2001 - 15:20:27 GMT
At 07:34 AM 7/6/2001 +0100, you wrote:
> But what was an American 'hunting' cap? After some
> research, my brill wife constructed for me a brill thing
> in brill vermilion - which was an absolute succes fou
> on the night. What it approximated to, though, was
> the item the blokes in the photographs were wearing
> as they posed with one foot on their dead elks - nothing
> like a 'baseball' cap.
I have wondered this for some time. I think of a hunting cap as like a
thicker baseball cap, brown, sometimes made of leather, with a panel that
folds down around the neck and ears (or two semicircles: one for each ear).
It's something boys once used to wear even if just going to school. But
Holden talks about the "peak" instead of the "bill." I think of an old
fashioned bedtime hat with a long peak when I think of a peak on a hat. For
a long time, that's actually what I pictured Holden wearing: a red and
black checked hat with a tall peak that just hung back and he draped it in
front of his eyes horsing around with Ackley. Another thing that makes it
seem like an unusual cap is that Ackley recognizes it specifically as a
deer hunting cap. Was it shaped differently than a baseball cap? Or was it
in camoufage colors? Or in bright hunter's orange? I'm not finding anything
on the Web but caps that look a lot like baseball caps and some fedoras and
even a cowboy hat.
Suzanne
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