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Re: WW/RR/DI cap style name?
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Thu, 12 Oct 2000 00:03:39 GMT
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Paul Ferguson wrote:
> 
> I see that Todd has adopted "kepi" as the term for this hat
> in Auczilla XIV, so I suppose that's now our standard term.
> Left to my own preferences, I would have used "forage cap",
> which is the common term in use for the ones from the
> American Civil War era, where the flat round top is inclined
> downward towards the brim.

I thought a forage cap didn't have a brim at all, but was one of those
fore-and-aft type caps that aircrew wore in WWII.

Kevin
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I see that Todd has adopted "kepi" as the term for this hat in Auczilla XIV, so I suppose that's now our standard term. Left to my own preferences, I would have used "forage cap", which is the common term in use for the ones from the American Civil (...) (26 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)

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