Last edited by Terry Lean (2007-03-09 12:59:51)

I have encountered some abuse when I posted my thoughts on a fez, but I'd like to think that people are more receptive here.

Indeed, some of the Levantines who wear the fez are quite proud and very well-done up. Sometimes you see them smoking hookahs as well.

Except in the increasingly unlikely event I ever became a Noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine, I don't ever see myself wearing a fez.

The somewhat similar chechia, which is the basis of the classic smoking cap, would be another matter. The chechia is the also the classic headgear of the Zouave. Many people confuse the chechia and the fez, but are not the same. The Lock smoking cap looks very appealing, but I cant really rationalize spending $400 or so for one.

Many years ago, I playfully quipped to a young fellow who was a family friend, "John, why don't you and I join the Masonic lodge and become Shriners and wear our fezes." His mother, an erstwhile Powers model, interjected, "Even Robert Redford would look ridiculous wearing one of those!"

I'd also like a night cap, with tassel, for meditation.

What do you ol' chums think about a leopard-skin fez?

Is it not very Internet Gentlemanly?