Post #405400 by El Buho on Mon, Sep 1, 2008 8:33 PM

Anyway, wearing a Fez because of coziness at home in Middle-Europe goes back until the middle of the 19th century, the era of Biedermeier. In that case, there is no connection to masons or the Ottoman Empire. Okay, maybe its because parts of the troops of the Austrian-Hungary empire - Bosnia, what was a part of the Ottoman Empire but occupied by the Austrians - had fezzes as part of their uniform and maybe some officers brought it to Middle-Europe when they returned to the capital of the empire. But there seems to be a gap of a few years...

Also, in "Max und Moritz", the famous cartoon by Wilhelm Busch from 1865, the tailor Böck, who is tricked by the boys, wears a fez.

Even Elton John wears one in his 80ts videoclip "Nikita", because of coziness at home...

So its all about the coziness!!!

[ Edited by: El Buho 2008-09-01 20:35 ]