Word: shapka
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While some of your venturesome Americans have recently "discovered" the shapka [Feb. 16] and associate it with Communism, we Canadians have been wearing this headgear for more than 50 years and prefer the more unattractive name of fur wedge...
Gentlemen, the shapka is not only Russian, but also the national headgear of Pakistan and Afghanistan. In Pakistan it is known as the "Jinnah Cap" after Pakistan's founder, who made it a national trade mark. The Camel Driver from Pakistan was seen in it during his U.S. tour...
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan visited Moscow. A man of infinite sartorial taste, Macmillan wore a white lamb's-wool shapka that he had bought in Russia 30 years before. Moviegoers also liked the way the shapka looked on the stone-bald head of swashbuckling Actor Yul Brynner in The Brothers Karamazov...
...notoriously conservative in choosing their business clothes have decided that the shapka is acceptable, even somewhat sophisticated. More and more men are wearing them downtown-in Washington, Chicago, New York and Boston. Eager to keep the boomlet going, importers and U.S. manufacturers are supplying a variety of styles, mostly in greys, blacks and browns, that range in price from $85 for a karakul number to $3.95 for a bargain-basement ersatz fur. Following their own mysterious impulses, women also seemed to have got that Slavic feeling: the most conspicuous new hat style on female heads this winter has been...
Sensible as it is in wintertime, the shapka requires some daring from its wearers. For, though the hat is worn all through Scandinavia as well as in Russia, many Americans associate it with Communism and the cold war. In Manhattan last year, a man in a shapka got on a subway train and sat down, whereupon a woman near by hissed: "Goddam foreigners!" He never wore his shapka again...