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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: Hammers on October 10, 2009, 06:34:25 PM

Title: Pork Pie Hat
Post by: Hammers on October 10, 2009, 06:34:25 PM

Does anyone know when these came into fashion in Afghanistan/NWF? You never see tthem during the Raj/Great Game era but seem to have become all the rage among Mujahedin (err..., Rambo era?)?

(http://www.travel-images.com/pakistan112.jpg)

Title: Re: Pork Pie Hat
Post by: former user on October 10, 2009, 07:24:01 PM

if You mean the "Pakul"

"The hat originated in the Chitral and Gilgit regions of what is now Northern Pakistan. It gained popuarity amongst the Northeastern Pashtun tribes in the early twentieth century largely as a substitute for their large and cumbersome turbans."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakul (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakul)

http://www.desertdress.com/afghanHat.html (http://www.desertdress.com/afghanHat.html)

Title: Re: Pork Pie Hat
Post by: Bako on October 11, 2009, 10:29:38 PM

Mmmm, meat pie...

Title: Re: Pork Pie Hat
Post by: former user on October 11, 2009, 10:44:46 PM

Quote from: Bako on October 11, 2009, 10:29:38 PM

Mmmm, meat pie...

You hungry?
it's natural, You're still growing ;)
(all this talk of Borscht and Kasha and Salo and Kolbas....)

Title: Re: Pork Pie Hat
Post by: Bako on October 11, 2009, 10:47:06 PM

I am, but I'm drinking three different things instead. Iced tea, real tea and sugar cane soda from a glass bottle. Errg, that's a lot of sugar...