Pyzhikovaya cap since the USSR

Fur has long been valued in Russia. In tsarist times, the nobility walked in sables and ermines, and in the Soviet one any one went. The skins were bought up, piled up, and then they were used to sew hats and fur coats. Each family knew a craftsman who could make a presentable type of fur product. Pleasure, of course, it was not cheap.

Surely everyone heard the famous song "Chizhik-Fawn, where have you been?". If everything is more or less clear with “chizhik”, then for many it has always remained a mystery about what kind of “fawn” they are talking about. This, of course, is about the modern generation, whose representatives did not find the heyday of hats from the interesting beast "Fawn". In some ways this is due to the process of making this headdress.

Today there are some problems in the search for detailed material, not everyone knows about the history of the headdress from the fawn. So why is he so famous compared to other hats? Let's see: what is the reason for the incredible popularity and who can be called the first owners of this prestigious headdress.

We turn first at the time a little before the formation of the USSR.

It was from this fact that the famous song was born: "Chizhik-pyzhik, where have you been?"!

In the 50s-70s of the last century, under the rule of the dear Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, the hit of a fawn became a “hit”. Her it was considered almost the hallmark of the party’s elite. Getting a fawn cap for a person with connections was a fantastic success, but what can we say about ordinary Soviet citizens?

Fawn hat was out of reach and therefore especially desirable for everyone. If someone still managed to grab this thing, then there was talk and rumors. Not one headgear was watched so attentively and was not so carefully looked after. The black market dealers engaged in fake pyzhikovyh hats and successfully sold them, taking advantage of the incompetence of people. Indeed, it was a task for professionals to distinguish a real fawn cap from its twin.

Due to the fact that only the highest ranks of the country could afford to dream of the Pyzhikov, a famous mystery appeared: “Why are the Pyzhikov standing in the USSR and the hares coming?”. The answer to this question, however, was known to all the working people. At all the parades, the cadres of the party apparatus stood at the walls of the Kremlin Palace and watched the marching soldiers and citizens in the square above. Ordinary people wore cheap hats made of dark rabbit fur.

• Nowadays, the forgotten director Konstantin Voinov created the original movie “Cap”, where the plot revolves around one writer who had long dreamed of what? That's right: pyzhikovom headdress. In the end, he learns that this is not destined to happen, and instead of a chic fashionable “fawn” he will be given out the most ordinary - a rabbit hat. Unable to withstand such a blow of fate, a member of Massolite dies from a heart attack.
• The heroes of the film “Girls” concluded a dispute, the gain in which was exactly the cap of the fawn.
• Since the military and party officials settled mainly in the same places in the city, entire districts appeared where they were worn. In Minsk it was Military and Armored streets.
• In 1956, for the Olympiad in Italy, they bought hats made of fawn for the whole team. One has only to guess how much money it cost the party. But the prestige of the country tried to maintain any means. Photos of Soviet athletes in a fawn hats walked victoriously around the world. The popularity of these caps in the USSR only added.

What is this beast - "Fawn"? Is it a beast?

On the hat usually one or several skins are taken. It is connected with this exactly how the headdress is sewn:

• With a few skins it's simple. All ready-made parts of the cap when laying out the pattern should be placed along the ridge of the desired piece of skin. It is important to consider in which direction the fur grows;
• in the case when they sew from the same skin, the visor is cut out from the spinal part, and the headset and headpiece are made from the neck part. The remaining material is used for cutting under-face details of the dressing.

• Color products made from fur of light brown or dark brown fur.
• Reindeer fur is elastic and shinythat facilitates the manufacturing process of the product.
• Fawn skin has dimensions: width 30-40 cm, and length 50-60, that wins by value in other fur materials for caps.
• Cap retains exceptional warmth in the most frosty season. This phenomenon is due to the fact that deer live in the north and are perfectly adapted to this climate.

The real cap of the fawn in our time do not get it. Reindeer are finally listed in the Red Book and no longer suffer from the whims of fashion-makers and state leaders.

In the trend are still foxes and fox furs. Do not go out of fashion mink. Sheepskin coats with fur collars are beautiful and warm. Caps sew on a silk lining. They are so dense that the wind can not get inside.

It is worth remembering that today, to keep warm, it is not necessary to wear real furs. Presently enough worthy analogs of such products are created;

• ecomeha;
• faux fur;
• synthetic heaters (sintepon).

Modern down-padded coats have various colors and styles, endure cold weather, cost much less.

Of course, the wealth and chic of furs is difficult to replace with something. However, for a man now it is not a necessity, but an attribute of luxury.