{"id":95397,"date":"2025-09-07T02:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T06:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=95397"},"modified":"2025-09-06T08:58:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:58:05","slug":"up-on-the-mountain-a-history-of-the-ski-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/09\/07\/up-on-the-mountain-a-history-of-the-ski-cap\/","title":{"rendered":"Up on the Mountain: a History of the Ski Cap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/axy07LtPUBA?si=0vRNUsxu3rWzdZhC\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>HatHistorian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 1 May 2025<\/p>\n<p>The ski cap, sometimes also called by its german name of <em>Bergm\u00fctze<\/em>, is a visored cap with ear flaps secured to the front by buttons or a buckle. Allegedly descended from eastern <em>bashlyks<\/em> worn by Russian soldiers, it was popular in the alpine regions of Germanic countries. First adopted by the AUstro-Hungarian Empire as a field cap, it was infamously worn by the Wehrmacht during WWII. It continues to be used as a field or dress cap by German, Austrian, and Hungarian armed forces, and civilian versions can be found around Central and Eastern Europe.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The hat I wear comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbkJSa25XUzc1YXMzMFdSX2hRTmVndWlCZ0FGZ3xBQ3Jtc0trZm9heW5WeklGTWRqd2xQS1pLd2R2SmU3Wk9DNDNNc3B5UlY5N1ZBcWlIQ1RIZFZLTlE1NnFxS3FtdVdSQlZWZDhfbHFNT1Nua3BEUENjeVFhaVRtWFZocGhWQ2NaWlRSLWpHLU85Y1VvOTlGWlBiQQ&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fhuthausstreibich.de%2Fproduct%2Fbalke-feldmuetze-baschlik-arbeitsmuetze-feldkappe-forst-jagd-loden-muetze-gruen-neu%2F&#038;v=axy07LtPUBA\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/huthausstreibich.de\/product\/b&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Version fran\u00e7aise (mise en ligne le 15 mai)<\/em> : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0b2qMQpWeV4\" target=\"_blank\">Video<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Title sequence designed by Alexandre Mahler<br \/>\nam.design@live.com<\/p>\n<p>This video was done for entertainment and educational purposes. No copyright infringement of any sort was intended.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HatHistorian Published 1 May 2025 The ski cap, sometimes also called by its german name of Bergm\u00fctze, is a visored cap with ear flaps secured to the front by buttons or a buckle. Allegedly descended from eastern bashlyks worn by Russian soldiers, it was popular in the alpine regions of Germanic countries. First adopted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1118,7,5,246,230],"tags":[418,618,603,723,690],"class_list":["post-95397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-germany","category-history","category-military","category-ww1","category-ww2","tag-austria","tag-clothing","tag-finland","tag-hungary","tag-specialforces"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-oOF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97719,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95397\/revisions\/97719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}