I don't care if the tricorne hat is not fashionable anymore. I look good in it, so I'm wearin' it!

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 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.

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.

We should really bring back the tricorne hat.

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.

I never associated it with the US or the so-called 'Revolution'. Any 18th century drama would feature this, it could as easily be called the Dick Turpin hat or many other names.

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.

I want to bring these hats back.

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)

i wear tricorns

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.

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.

Thank you for making this materials also in English :) - I come from Poland, don't know French and they are very interesting.

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

The Bill Nye of hats!!

I never thought I'd subscribe to a channel about hats. :D Thanks for this outstanding video.

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 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.

Hi, that was really interesting. Thank you.