Second Empire Prefect Style Bicorne Hat Wool Felt
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A prestigious headwear of French manufacture with excellent quality craftsmanship and impeccable finishing details.
A typical Second Empire hat, with the shape of prefects' hats worn during this period. A style revisited with white fabric and cockade.
A bicorne that impresses both in its shape and elegance. A made-to-order product with a manufacturing lead time of 3 to 4 weeks.
Second Empire Prefect Style Bicorne Hat Wool Felt
The bicorne is the major headwear that appeared at the end of the 18th century, and was then worn by both civilians and military personnel. During the 19th century, it became a headwear reserved exclusively for state representatives, army officers, and police representatives.
After Napoleon Bonaparte\'s coup d\'état on November 9, 1799, he revived the Intendants of the old regime in the form of prefects, and according to the established law, "the prefect alone will be in charge of the administration." The prefect appointed mayors and deputy mayors for communes with fewer than 5,000 inhabitants and proposed to the First Consul, later to the Emperor, the appointment of others. 97 prefectures were assigned to carefully selected men in 1800, often former revolutionaries passionate about order, discipline, and national greatness. Bonaparte would advise them: "Never be men of the Revolution but men of the government... and ensure that France dates its happiness from the establishment of the prefectures." It was these prefects who forged a solid territorial administration in France.
A hat steeped in history as it is the hat shape worn by prefects during the Second Empire. A style revisited with the use of white edges and cockade, rather than yellow and tricolor respectively as they wore at the time. This hat demonstrates excellent manufacturing quality and exemplary finishing finesse, and impresses as much by its shape as by its great elegance, a French manufacture!
A made-to-order product with a manufacturing lead time of 3 to 4 weeks.
About the Second Empire Prefect Style Bicorne Hat
- Composition: wool felt
- Black & white colors
- Made in France
- Crown height: approximately 12 cm
- Total width: approximately 44 cm
- Crown height approximately 12 cm
- Brim width approximately 17.3 inches
- Material Wool felt
- Shape Special Hats - Style
- Shape Bicorn
- Brand Traclet
- Color Black
- Country of manufacture France
- Washable Simply a brush stroke
- Season All year round
- Gender Men
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