"Soviet peaked caps had enormously wide crowns on them, as well. The Soviets never did anything small."
I'm not sure how to rewrite this without coming off as wishy-washy, but the thing is, Soviet peaked caps did not necessarily have really large crowns, and judging from photos of antiques, some of them were actually on the small side. The early Red Army leather commissar cap (komissarka) mentioned above is an example.
Tangential to this, I'm also beginning to suspect that the leather caps worn by Strelnikov and Yelkin in Doctor Zhivago were used as stand-ins for komissarkas — and I'm growing uncertain about what they actually are. Along with Marlon Brando's Wild One cap, which is similar. Wikipedia claims the Brando is a fisherman's cap, but I've never seen a fisherman's cap for sale that had a multi-panel top. The Brando and Zhivago caps combine the cylindrical lower-middle section of a peaked cap with the multi-panel crown of what certain proprietors call a spitfire cap, though I can't find any reference article on such a thing.
Edited by HazelMcCallisterNote to all: I don't participate in the forums here unless something much more important than TV Tropes content is at stake.
"Soviet peaked caps had enormously wide crowns on them, as well. The Soviets never did anything small."
I'm not sure how to rewrite this without coming off as wishy-washy, but the thing is, Soviet peaked caps did not necessarily have really large crowns, and judging from photos of antiques, some of them were actually on the small side. The early Red Army leather commissar cap (komissarka) mentioned above is an example.
Tangential to this, I'm also beginning to suspect that the leather caps worn by Strelnikov and Yelkin in Doctor Zhivago were used as stand-ins for komissarkas — and I'm growing uncertain about what they actually are. Along with Marlon Brando's Wild One cap, which is similar. Wikipedia claims the Brando is a fisherman's cap, but I've never seen a fisherman's cap for sale that had a multi-panel top. The Brando and Zhivago caps combine the cylindrical lower-middle section of a peaked cap with the multi-panel crown of what certain proprietors call a spitfire cap, though I can't find any reference article on such a thing.
Edited by HazelMcCallister Note to all: I don't participate in the forums here unless something much more important than TV Tropes content is at stake.