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Growing up my father wore a fake fur one (lots of chassidim wear them) and I’ve always wanted the real deal…Although I thought it was only chassidim who wear these this guy told me thyre persian. A karakul (or qaraqul) hat (Pashto/Persian: قراقلی) is a...

by mordechai January 12, 2019

Growing up my father wore a fake fur one (lots of chassidim wear them) and I’ve always wanted the real deal...Although I thought it was only chassidim who wear these this guy told me thyre persian. A karakul (or qaraqul) hat (Pashto/Persian: قراقلی) is a hat made from the fur of the Qaraqul breed of sheep. The triangular hat is part of the costume of the native people of Kabul which has been worn by many generations of men in Afghanistan. The fur from which it is made is referred to as Astrakhan, broadtail, qaraqulcha, or Persian lamb. Qaraqul means black fur in Turkic. The hat is peaked, and folds flat when taken off of the wearer's head.

The qaraqul hat is typically worn by men in Central and South Asia. The folding qaraqul was worn by the former king of Afghanistan, Amanullah Khan in 1919. The karakul, which had distinguished all educated urban men since the beginning of the 20th century, has fallen out of fashion in Afghanistan

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