Silver-Wolf
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I've always found the history of things as interesting as the here now and future science fiction. Sayings and the reason odd things and practices have become common place over time.
What's your thoughts on why a hat has it's bow on the left and a hat gets tilted in that direction?
I was brought up with the thought there was actual reason to this, it goes way back in time to when people fought hand to hand and with swords. It's why feathers or plumes are placed to the left, bows and tilting of a hat.
I was told the reasoning or thinking of it was based on this:
Most people are right handed and back in the day of yesteryear everyone wore a hat and often adorned it with things such a feathers and plumes. Ribbons were added as a way to hold such feathers and all kinds of oddities to the hat. The reason things were placed to the left and tilted that way was so when fighting by sword in close combat and keeping in mind being right handed, so your hat, plumes etc didn't get ion the way as you swung and fought. Images of the 3 musketeers and their large feathered plumes come to mind.
So come to more modern day times and I was lead to believe the tilting of a hat still happened to mean or indicate your confident 'n game, ready to fight, play or just have a bit O' fun.
Whats everyone else taught or thought/think?
Did you also know they had to bring in laws protecting birds and animals because it got so crazy at one time it became a business in itself of the killing of birds to adorn hats. You were only allowed feathers, not portions of the birds such as wings or whole birds even . That was against the law I believe lol, how crazy.
What's your thoughts on why a hat has it's bow on the left and a hat gets tilted in that direction?
I was brought up with the thought there was actual reason to this, it goes way back in time to when people fought hand to hand and with swords. It's why feathers or plumes are placed to the left, bows and tilting of a hat.
I was told the reasoning or thinking of it was based on this:
Most people are right handed and back in the day of yesteryear everyone wore a hat and often adorned it with things such a feathers and plumes. Ribbons were added as a way to hold such feathers and all kinds of oddities to the hat. The reason things were placed to the left and tilted that way was so when fighting by sword in close combat and keeping in mind being right handed, so your hat, plumes etc didn't get ion the way as you swung and fought. Images of the 3 musketeers and their large feathered plumes come to mind.
So come to more modern day times and I was lead to believe the tilting of a hat still happened to mean or indicate your confident 'n game, ready to fight, play or just have a bit O' fun.
Whats everyone else taught or thought/think?
Did you also know they had to bring in laws protecting birds and animals because it got so crazy at one time it became a business in itself of the killing of birds to adorn hats. You were only allowed feathers, not portions of the birds such as wings or whole birds even . That was against the law I believe lol, how crazy.
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