Ah good news. Someone at Wikipedia finally got the truth out. Now the explanation behind the famous ANZAC Slouch Hat is 99% correct! For years, they had cited the false explanation that I had created from imagination for a sales project. My fictive explanation as ad-copy had been stolen (I was irked at first but then I was flattered) by another retailer as their own. Then someone took it from them, and so on. Wikipedia then got the same false origins from the retailers and included it in their previous entry. Although Wikipedia still mentions my little fiction in the first paragraph, the rest of the entry gets it right on the nose. Back in the mid-90s, I had one of these hats. A fine Akubra. On the road trip from Ontario to Texas, everywhere we went, I was approached to ask where I got the hat. By the umpteenth time, I saw the potential to sell them myself. A few years before, I did my own research to find out the origins when I tried to make my own slouch hat. Honestly, I thought they were a little foppish - mimicking of the early Cavaliers and Musketeers of the 18th and 17th Cs. Military heroes very much in vogue during the height of the romantic-hungry Victorian era. Sitting down to write my ad copy: I didnt think that this sounded cool and manly enough. So, I devised that the side was pinned or clipped-up so that when troops shouldered their rifles, slung or carried, the hat brim didnt interfere. Pure fiction on my part. I thought my sales demographic (based on the type of men who asked about my hat), might better appreciate it. Thankfully, I was never credited, so I bear no shame nor 15 minutes of fame for it all. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slouch_hat
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 07:22:21 +0000
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