The semi rigid felt hat (from the piedmontese and Lombard lobia: name of the covered gallery of modest houses) also owes its success to the deputy Cristiano Lobbia (1826-1878) who was wearing it.
Cristiano Lobbia was born in Asiago, was a famous patriot, he joined the 1848 insurrections against the Austro-Hungarians.![cristiano_lobbia[1]](http://www.dressspace.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/cristiano_lobbia1.jpg)
He graduated in engineering, took part in the “Thousands” undertaking where he distinguish himself for his qualities.
He was elected deputy and he was reargued for his rightfulness and his bellicose spirit.
His most famous battle, the “Tobacco monopoly scandal”, revealed a system of bribes of which he had the actual proof. He was attacked by an unidentified man who attacked him with stick and stabbed him three times. They said he made it all up and he was accused of simulation of offence.
Lobbia entered the Parliament with the bowler that he was wearing the evening of the aggression which was showing a hollow in the middle due to the strike of the stick.
A Florentine hatter started producing a hat in the Lobbia’s style giving origin to the famous headdress.
He was fully acquitted and rehabilitated but all these sorrows led his to die a few months later at the early age of fifty-two.
The Black beret, considered to be the revolutionary headgear par excellence, has certainly deserved a place in wardrobes of the symbols of the 1900’s.
the world. Different colours are used to characterize the various corps and units, sometimes together with a distinctive badge or coat of arms.
The classic , iconic image of Che Guevara wearing his black beret decorated with the Cuban flag’s gold star is the most famous and ubiquitous image in circulation. This hugely famous portrait capturing Che Guevara’s firm and stoic expression whilst taking part in a memorial service for the victims of the La Coubre explosion was taken by the photographer Alberto korda (http://www.venceremos.it/guevara/korda.htm ). The commercial exploitation of this image reached levels the photographer would have never imagined. Unfortunately, shortly before his death, Albert korda was forced to start a legal battle against a British advertising agency for supplying the image used in a Smirnoff Vodka advert.
within the army and by important militant revolutionary figures, in early 1900’ the beret finds its way to bohemian artists the likes of Pablo Picasso, quickly becoming the essential accessory for different and unconventional look.
Worn with the crown to one side, the beret sees something of a revival with Fayne Dunaway in the movie “Bonnie and Clyde”, Hollywood masterpiece of the 1970’s . Initially dismissed as only another gangster movie, it was subsequently reviewed and appreciated for its references to the rebellious tendencies in the 1970’s America. As well as offering an analysis of interpersonal relationships and a more in depth psychological one never before seen, this magnificent movie represented an essential inspiration for the fashion of the time: “ from the moment the beret rested on Dunaway’s blonde head that hat would never be the same”.
