A Revolutionary Hat: a History of the Tricorn
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- Iconic hat of the 18th century, associated amongst other things with the American War of independence, old European nobility, or pirates, the tricorn (also known as the Cocked Hat) was worn by all walks of society for the better part of 100 years.
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That black and white photo of that officer is my direct ancestor, Brigadier General George Weedon! I am honored you know of my ancestor!! Thank you so much!!
I don't care if the tricorne hat is not fashionable anymore. I look good in it, so I'm wearin' it!
Do it!
Me too. We need to bring it back.
And here I am off the coast , raised off boats and wearing a down under as I'm surrounded by cowboys
Very macaroni
Sadly I can’t find any in australia that aren’t a pirates of the Caribbean ripoff hat
We should really bring back the tricorne hat.
bring back tricorns, capes/cloaks, greatcoats and swords i say! everyone thinks theyre cool, but no one has had the nerve to reignite the trend yet 😂😂
What @Trey_816 said!
@@bootstrapbill98 Don't forget codpieces... dear God, how much more comfortable my life would be if I could wear a codpiece.
i wear tricorns
and not just a cosplay outfit but as actual clothing
I approve
That's awesome. What do you wear it with?
You a brave...if I did that I'd get laughed at. Here it's either Cowboy hats or Baseball Caps . Anything else is a no no.
@@peterlyall2848 even though cowboys only existed for thirty years in the nineteenth century and most of those people never played baseball since highschool? Now that is truly silly.
Absolute Lad!
I was a reenactor in my youth. The tricorn is not super good when it comes to rain or snow. It accumulates and makes for a royal mess. I've been heavy into the design and manufacture of caps for about a year now. It is history on your head.
I had the same thought. there is no way for the snow to run off, just creating a swimming pool on the head
@@allensacharov5424
I think that's the reason why the edges are pinned up: so one can let down it's edges in foul weather. Being from Southern California, I'm more concerned about its ability to shade the wearer during +300 days of sunny days. One would need to unpin it during the day on most every day.
@@badger1296 although jaunty, it strikes me as impractical
@@badger1296 yep
Finally, a place that can tell me with some degree of certainty that military cocked hats were worn slightly aside over the eyebrow. Great video; subscribed.
I remember on a trip to Washington ranch for a school trip, we had a Welsh guide in a tricorn hat. Poor man, a bunch of my classmates from our small New England town had questions on why he was wearing a funny hat and speaking like a pirate. He was really kind though, and gave us the reason that it looked better having all corners pinned rather than just the one on the sword arm.
The slouch hat was known in England in the 1830s as a gibbous hat (because its shape was like the gibbous moon - in a phase that's between half and full). Butchers wore them to be able to carry a carcass of pork or mutton on the shoulder. The cleaned carcass was sleeved in muslin, and the butcher or his porter would put a cloth over his shoulder and collar so that he could carry the carcass (weighing about 1 cwt) without greasing his clothes. There are many images of The Metropolitan Meat Market in Paternoster Square which depict the practice.
Coalmen had a brimkess leather cap with a long leather flap which covered the neck and shoulders so that they could carry a cwt sack of coal across both shoulders (1 cwt - a hundredweight - was about 51 kg in England).
When I started work in the 1960s, employers would check that you could lift a hundredweight onto your shoulder before taking you on, because it was the standard weight for manhandling anything from potatoes to steel billets to sugar. Nowadays the limit is 10 kg - less than a fifth.
How the mighty have fallen
@@milesbrown8016 Oddly so, in that English people have better health than in the 1830s and are physically taller as a result of better healthcare and nutrition. One might expect the English to be better physically developed. However, we have become institutionally fearful of litigation:
When he was 9 years old, one of my children wanted to run with me, so I took him on my daily 5 km run around the lanes. He showed great potential (i.e. kept up) so next time we doubled the distance. 10,000 metres with energy to spare - without any athletic training. So I got in touch with a PE Teacher at his school, and our town's Athletics Club...
I wish I hadn't. I was berated for potentially causing untold harm to his physical development, warned about being a "pushy parent", and the Teacher began with saying "Are you mad?".
The only Club that would train him was the Rowing Club. He excelled although he wasn't really tall enough for international competition. He wasn't bad at Cross Country and Fell Running either when he was in his late teens, and joined the Parachute Regiment - but getting him the training he wanted as a teenager was like banging your head against a brick wall. He would beg me to take him to the Black Mountains so he could run over them - not knowing that his Old Man used to do the same before the lad was born.
I do hope PE Teachers read this, because I am still miffed about the wasted opportunity 30 years later. Some kids are like Malinois dogs... they just need to run for fun (and to beat the Old Man).
"Are you mad?"
"Not yet, but please continue."
I want to bring these hats back.
Same
Just join any sad Tea Party convention.
It's part of some lesser known German local dresses. Especially up the river Main. Worn, of course, on special occasions like festivals, but still very much there.
Yea Swedish great northern war uniforms and 7 years war Prussian uniforms were the best
Tricorne > shako
There’s probably another reason musketeers cocked the brim. They fired muskets, and matchlock and flintlock muskets had quite a flash of fire from the priming pan. Cocking up the brim would save the hat from damage.
Actually they left one side down to shield the guy next to them from the sparks, but one side up so that they could clearly see
this just made me think, i'll bet a decent amount of unburned powder, ash or other debris would probably collect inside the upturned brim which must have been a nightmare to clean, as well as turning you into a walking fire hazard
Thank you for making this materials also in English :) - I come from Poland, don't know French and they are very interesting.
Thank you for giving the historic information about the tricorne or cocked hat. Alot of people seem to commonly associate the hat with pirates during the latter Golden Age of Piracy in the 1710's/20's. Which isn't always the case, it was an everyday hat fashion throughout much of the 18th century.
This was great! Kind of amazing how much you can cover about one hat in 8.5 minutes. And I love seeing all the photos and historical paintings and illustrations
Merci beaucoup! I'm glad you enjoyed it and found it interesting! :)
7:43
The tricorne actually lived on until 1923 in the Swedish army.
The first one came with "Uniform m/1906", known as "Hatt m/1906". (I presume I won't have to translate those terms into English.)
sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_m/1906
sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatt_m/1906
That uniform was replaced by the almost identical "Uniform m/1910", which had the "Hatt m/1910" as part of it.
sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_m/1910
sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatt_m/1910
The tricorne hats were eventually replaced with the introduction of "Uniform m/1923", which introduced the "Mössa m/1923". This kepi-like hat was similar to the earlier "Mössa m/1865", but in grey instead of blue.
("mössa" is usually translated into "hat" in English, but it is different from the Swedish word "hatt" in that it usually refers to a less formal type of hat. And today is almost exclusively used to denote soft hats like a knitted winter hat or toque. Although the visor caps worn by students, "Studentmössa" (lit. "Student's hat") and modern practical military caps that are more like baseball caps or patrol caps are called "Fältmössa" (lit. "Field cap"))
sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_m/1923
sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6ssa_m/1923
sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6ssa_m/1865
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Huh, takk for the additional information!
And I kinda wish they'd never gotten rid of it
@@hathistorianjc So do I. I once found a cavalry captain's uniform m/1910 at a military surplus market, and would have bought it had it not been made for a man much shorter than me. I have yet to see any of the tricornes outside of a museum, though.
He said that explicitly. Were you not listening?
TedTalk+: "Mössa" means a wooly or knit cap, though it's also derogatory for any hat in poor or dirty condition
"Flätmössa" is the barrette, and other barrette-like hats made of wool
The Bill Nye of hats!!
Hi, that was really interesting. Thank you.
I found a British officers cocked hat or bi-corn hat with the coat, heavy with metallic thread braid. It was on offer as a costume in a fancy dress store in New Zealand. The owner told me it was the real thing and was worn at the treaty of Waitangi. The first treaty between the Maori people and Britain. That was back in the 1970s, I doubt that historical museum pieces would be leased out as fancy dress today! A lot of history was "replaced" with modern things back then. The word crass comes to mind. Thanks.
That's really cool!
I never thought I'd subscribe to a channel about hats. :D Thanks for this outstanding video.
Merci!
Haha. Me either. It showed up in my feed I watched the first one I was hooked.😂
I am from Germany and was at "wanderschaft", traditional travelship of craftsmen for 3+ years. We have to wear those kinds of "flappy" hats, and a lot of us are pinning sides of them at travels, primarily against wind, so the hat isn´t blown away. especially on bridges or ships its near "a must" if you want to keep your hat on your head.
Thank you for these fascinating and wonderful histories of hats. The tricorne hat must be one of the most attractive hats ever invented in the Western world. The shako hat was a bit much really. Love from England.
I just ordered a cocked hat for a colonial outfit. Made me wonder about its history. Thanks for giving me just that
You've done a video on the tricorn and also the bicorn- I'm still waiting for the unicorn !
Good video. Randomly thought about where tricorns come from and I learned more than expected.
Bits of history, as this, makes the old world a bit more interesting!! Thank you!
I love hats!
Can't wait to see more from you!
I found a heavy leather version with gold trim hanging in a hat shop collecting dust and had to have it. It's thick enough leather that it protects my head from branches and light falling objects, and when it rains I can drop the cocked sides and it covers my face and neck from the rain. It's my favorite hat, and yes I wear it to town where it has earned me the nickname Captain at the hardware store.
When you mentioned current iterations of the tricorn you forgot this one last thing:
Aaaaargh!
Great to see you made the right claim regarding the military way of wearing the cocked hat. I also pointed it out on Brandon's channel back when he released the video on the matter. Where Brandon states that the hat would be worn completely sideways, I pointed out that iconography rather shows the front point worn on the left eye, like you said. This also looks way more decent that wearing it sideways.
merci! I didn't know that until I saw his video, and then looked into it myself. It makes sense, and is an interesting tidbit of information!
Brandon doesn't say they were completely sideways. He says with the lace centered on your face. In the video he doesn't wear it completely sideways.
@@cjthehistoryperson Brandon always wore it completely sideways to me, and voiced this trend with these words in his video. I even talked about it back then to point it out. I'm not saying soldiers wouldn't do it, but how Brandon sold it, it sounded like it was so. In fact it's on the left eye max pretty much all of the time in iconography. Might also be that British army cocked hats from the late 18th century are ugly. Earlier patterns looked way better.
The one hat I'd love to see coming back into style...
Love the tri-corn (and family variations) strutted arround as an 18th century Rev War re-enactor for 35 happy 'show-off' years.
7:49 This tricorn was worn by all ranks, it was adopted with the new uniform of 1910, it was felt it would hark back to the caroleans. A new uniform was adopted in 1923, but the tricorn was still used to equip some soldiers at the outbreak of ww2. It was also possible to fold down the brims and use it as a slouch hat.
Glad that you used the proper term of the period - cocked hat. Putting the point over the eye is also correct. You are also correct that by the American Revolution the front of the hat became smaller. Earlier style more equally pointed hats were referred to as "Cumberland cocked" hats by the time of the American Revolution. This is mainly in reference to the dress of native american leaders who had hats of the older style.
I still wear a tricorn and have done for many years 😉
I've learned a lot more about these hats than I thought I would. Thanks :)
My pleasure!
I'm surprised no one came up with a kepi for functionality. Necessity is usually the mother of all inventions.
The best hat
I was seriously thinking about buying a tricorn hat for myself, but those prices you linked to are way high.
Is this the direct ancestor of the cowboy hat?
not exactly the ancestor, it's more that they both descend from the round slouch hat (the one you see me folding), with each having different ways f folding the brim. I plan on doing a video on the cowboy hat eventually which will hopefully explain more. So they share a common ancestor and are just different evolutions of it.
Atun-Shei Films brought me here. Interesting stuff, subbed!
Oh my, I didn't realize I was mentioned. A high honor indeed!
I adore the tricorn! I bought a modern one in Venice recently and am the fortunate owner of 3 ladies fashion ones from the 1910s. So happy to have found your channel today!
old German folk song: "my hat, it has three corns!", very interesting history. the "hymn" of my people, descendants of 18th century austrian colonists (rebels, criminals ;-> ) to the eastern regions of the empire (nowadays serbia, romania and hungaria)
We will watch your career with great interest.
hahahaha, thank you chancellor.
What I have always wondered and never been able to find out, due to my unfortunate lack of tricorn, is if the hat actually protects you from the sun at all? Obviously not as well as a regular round hat but does it at least help some?
A little bit, but back in the day, if they really needed protection from the sun, they would unlace a side and fold it down to create a visor of sorts
@@hathistorianjc I've seen that on Brandon F's channel, it seems like it would work quite well. Honestly I could see these making a comeback, as silly as it seems they are semi-practical hats. I wonder how common unlacing the hats was, I'd imagine military commanders didn't like it since they looked "unprofessional" or something like that. Great video
the tricorn is also still issued to female sailors (NCOs and officers) in the Royal Navy as it is in the french, though it looks much more similar in colour & pattern to the male counterpart (black band and brim with white canvas top) and the sailor cap you discussed in another video (frustratingly, in the navy, all three of these hats are referred to exclusively as "caps" and if you call them anything other than this (although the military slang term for all headgear is "lid") you will get in trouble for using the wrong name)
Swear to God I am loving this channel😇
Fun channel! Well done!
Oddly, the Royal Marines wore a miitarized form of a Top Hat in the Nelson Period. It had cockades and hackles.
Jolly Good!!
Great video.....always loved these hats....
Thanks for your content! You answer questions we all have but don’t pursue
A variation (usually smothered in feathers and fur) is also part of the Funkenmariechen uniform for German Karneval clubs
Thanks for including Ol' Fred, er, King Frederick II of Prussia. He's the iconic tricorn wearer in Germany. The tricorn therefore has something Prussian about it, Prussian of the olden times.
All your videos are awesome! I would love one focused on the cavalier hat!
Fun fact female British prison officers wore tricorn hats until probably the 1980's, you can often see them in TH-cam vids of the court procedure drama "Crown Court".
that was really fascinating, thanks for sharing your knowledge, loved all the visual images to go with your content, good stuff.
great video, great detail and great delivery!
Merci!
Best.....channel.....ever!
Thank you for explaining my history
Great video! I made a few of leather, they never failed to generate conversation.
I just found your channel. You've answered many questions of my wondering thoughts over the years. Which a lot of them have been "Where\why is that &did it come from?".
Interesting video. This is your first video I have seen and I'm impressed. I'm going to subscribe and look for more!
I note that my family is from the Odenwald in Germany, where the tricorn is worn with the local folk costume (Tracht)
Awesome.
Correction, the Swedish reservist army (Landstormen), which consisted of the older conscripts of ages 33-40, existed until 1942, and all ranks wore their tricorns, not just officers. Their tricorns was introduced in 1907, and its shape was deliberate as it looked like the old tricorns of the Swedish army 200 years prior. Back when Sweden was a great military power.
Interesting! Thank You!
Well done, sir.
Merci!
The fictional detective Nero Wolfe apparently wore a tricorn, though it was called a pirate's hat in the novels. The A&E television series version shows him once wearing it, and it made him look (intentionally) totally out of place in the 1950s.
Very good, thank you
New subscriber here. Andy sent me! Fascinating topic, cannot wait to delve into your back catalog.
I found this interesting and the presentation is comfy.
Really informative, thanks!
Mmmm
Quite The Freedomous American Headwear
Great Presentation
Wonderfully Good Work
Thank You
Huzzah! A great explanation.
By the way, where did you get your marvelous regimentals?
Continuing the note on the name: at the time in which the bicorne was replacing its more triangular brother (1790s I suppose?) , were they both just called cocked hats or would there have been a way of distinguishing them by name?
As far as I could find out, yes, they'd have each been called a "cocked hat" in their day (with the name still being applied to the fore-and-aft bicorn). The distinctive names, which came from the French, made their way to English a little later.
I look terrible in hats (big head), but I love this channel. So weird.
The female officers’ cap of the British (and NZ) Navy is also a tricorne, albeit with a wide open front point. From the front it could be mistaken for a police-style bowler, but the back of the brim is completely folded up creating quite sharp back corners.
Nice hat!
4:50 DIGITAL CAMERAS . PEOPLE WERE REALLY QUITE VERY ADVANCED AT THAT TIME IN THE SOMETHING-TH CENTURY
Pretty cool video.
If you look up 'dans marieke' you'll find what may seem some cosplay outfit
but it's worn by dancing girls during carnival.
Rest assured sir, I always find your videos interesting
The painting you showed to illustrate the vestgial front corn that evolved during the transition from tri-corn to bi-corn during the latter 18th century is of Frederick the Great, iirc, a man of the mid-18th century. 🤔
Great videos. Very informative. Thanks!
Top hats are the more Aquarian version of the ocean loving tricorn hat. Paul revere seems to be the American most associated with the tricorn hat because many had such beautiful wigs without the tricorn hat in their depiction. :)
nice vid
A few mistakes. The cocked hat was actually called so, due to the cockade.
Also, no soldier in the Revolution used a rifle. While the militia used rifles, the Continental Army (as well as the Hessians, British, French, etc.) exclusively used muskets.
Sorry, there were Continental units that used rifles - The First Continental Regiment of 1776, Morgan's Rifle Corps of 1777, and several Virginia regiments were mixed with both musket and riflle companies typically six musket armed and three rifle armed.
Excellent video, bro! May I suggest the medieval bird hat?
FLAAAAAANNNNNDERSSSSS!
Thanks for your thorough explanation of the tricorn hat, and its relationship to its bicorn successor. But one style is conspicuously absent from this presentation. Does that suggest a dedicated video to the unicorn?
Super interesting and very well done!👍🏻🇺🇸
Soldiers wear their bush hats with the sides up to improve hearing - when the rim is down, it obscures sound
Female naval officers wear a tricorn
In the UK its not uncommon for mayor's to wear them to this day as part of their formal mayoral dress.
Great vid
It's a pirates life for me
It was military regulation to have the hat cocked to the side, always, that’s how they were ordered to wear them
Loving these videos as I'm saddle stitching up leather pirate hats for the PA Ren Faire in the US. I assume you are French Canadian? I'd love to see you cover different pirate hats, who wore them, along with perhaps their flags. I think I've almost watched all of your videos, only one to go.
I'm actually half French half American!
I'll take that into consideration, I have a long list but never decline ideas for later
Only tangentially related, but how old do you believe wide brimmed hats to be?
They seem to only really become fashionable around the early 1600s, with the oldest depiction I could dig up coming from the medieval German "Nürnberger Hausbücher", or mendel books. The first book (from 1425) decpicts a winegrower wearing a brown, wide brimmed hat, interestingly with one side cocked or folded up. Most medieval depictions of wide brimmed hats are usually of straw hats, but this one doesn't appear to be one, considering both its cocked brim and dark brown colour.
It would be interesting to get some input on this. I've gone down quite the rabbit hole upon noticing that in the old Norse prose edda, the god Odin is also named "Síðhǫttr", meaning broad hat.
トライコーンは米国独立戦争七年戦争を象徴する非常にデザイン性が高い帽子です。
ヴェルサイユに代表される華麗な宮廷貴族も愛用した近世ヨーロッパを象徴するアイテムだと思います。
日本では宮内庁が管理する馬車の御者が着用する制服に採用されております。
日本に赴任する世界各国の大使や公使は、天皇陛下に信任状を奉呈するために皇居に参内します。
この際東京駅から皇居まで、こちらの馬車に乗る栄誉が与えられます。
華麗な宮廷儀礼を飾るトライコーンは現代にぜひとも復活して欲しい帽子です。
I like that state flag.
Guardia civil's hat is the modern adaptation or Evolution of their first headgear, a bicorn similar in shape to this one
I guess kind of like the French gendarmes or Italian carabinieri
I don't know when the French and Italian units were organized, but the Guardia Civil dates from 1844 and was set up to try to stamp out banditry and other criminal activity in the countryside of Spain. @@hathistorianjcMy cousin spent years in Europe with the NCIS, and he has one of those GC hats and maybe one from the Carabinieri.
Outside of America why would we automatically think of pirates? I imagine pirates wearing a scarf tied round the head. I wasnt actually aware it wasnt an officer class thing.
Awesome video! Are you in KC? I couldn’t help but notice the Missouri flag and the Royals hat.
I am indeed! That's where I live when I'm not in France (and where these are filmed)