Fodder Wear - The Phrygian Cap - The Liberty Cap - Identify Yourself!

Arch of Septimius Severus, Rome

FodderWear. Fodder Ware. PeopleWear. See the little hat representing a tradition still alive, and originating with the ancient Phrygian Cap. It recurs in our symbolism even today - A Symbol of Liberation. Do an Images search for Phrygian Cap. Fodder worldwide have made this headware their own for millenia, as they seek to get out from Under.

Description. Look at the captive on the left front here, Arch of Septimus Severus, Old Rome. There is the cap -- note the peak facing over the top and to the front, not to the side or back, as we ordinarily do with hat droops. In those days, a slave once freed again could re-don his own headwear - so the Phrygian cap came to represent release. See below.

It is a cone-shaped, fitted cap, with a forward-leaning bulbous flop-over narrowing at the top, in red or sometimes yellow, but mostly red. It is used in many places as a symbol of freedom, or revolt against authority. See ://aramis.obspm.fr/~heydari/divers/marianne-eng.html.
Note that Smurfs wear them, and so does Punch of Punch and Judy, says the site listed as (1) at the bottom, with the other sources used so far. And, at the mail order grocery, the liberty cap mushrooms, that you may or may not eat, look like the hats on a pole.

Tradition List. To get an idea of the absolute magnitude of this piece of gorgeousness, follow this rough chronology. Even now we are looking where to get one. Even make one. Send them to Washington. To be updated as we find more. Our anchor draws on the information from the languedoc-france site given as (1). There are also fine illustrations there. Go there first.

• Worn by the god, Mithras, see Bogomilia, Site for the Unsung, Mithraism. Other religious references at (6)
• On Trajan's column, Rome, worn by Dacians (that is Romania now, see Romania Road Ways
• On Arch of Septimus Severus, Rome, there on heads of Parthians (1), see the photo above, and another view, Italy Road Ways, Rome, Arch of Septimus Severus.
• Phrygian citizens, area of Anatolia in antiquity (1)(15). These are the ones that apparently originated the style.
• Worn by Trojans, like Paris, (2)
• Worn by liberated slaves, Rome and Greece (say that slaves came from Phrygia, and when released, re-donned their own headgear?) (1).
• Worn in many depictions of the Three Wise Men, also Zoroaster connections, as from Persia. Fits with association with the East.
• Revolt of the Red Caps, Brittany 1675 (1)
• Northeast rebels, in particular, Revolutionary War, wore them, some knit in slogans like liberty or death (French influence up here?) (1)
• Sons of Liberty, America 1765 - (1)
• Liberty caps, aloft on poles, Revolutionary War (1)
• On official seal of US Army (1)
• On seal of Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA as first college to be chartered in new republic (did you know that, Ashley?) (1)
• Keep going at that site - art work, more seals, allegories. Note that Jefferson Davis did not like it and substituted a very awkward helmet. (1)
• Napoleon also hated it. (1) See Phrygian liberty cap and the magic mushroom at (4)
  Much on France and the symbolic Marianne wearing it (1). Specifics at (14) ,(15)
• Society of the United Irishmen (1)
• On Mexican coins 19th-20th C (1)
• On coats of arms or seals of Nicaragua, Colombia, El Salvador, Cuba, Paraguay, Argentina (also for army there and navy) (1)
• Gallbladders also have Phrygian caps (3)
• Tobogganers can make them, see designs and sketches etc. at (5). Find them for sale at (7), the Village Hat Shop Gallery - scroll down to the 18th Century, and there is a phrygian cap listed. Rats. There was my business idea. See also the Severed Head Gallery at (8) for more pictures.
• Liberty cap mushrooms - these make you happy. Psilocybe semilanceata. Attracts lovers, used by Druids, found in Ireland and other places.(9) See also (10). Magic mushrooms. (11). No adverse long term use, mild, says this British education site (12)
• Find a pattern for a doll-size, but it says blue was worn in the American Revolution, and only by men. (13)
  

Business Plan! The fodder at this Fodder Site needs other fodder to manufacturer and market this wardrobe must-have. We provide slogans. A repro of the original piece of Fodder Wear, tested by seekers throughout the centuries. Revolt against whatever or whomever you like. Be revolting. Show freedom ringing from whatever policies/ people held you-us back. This is the year. Send it to whomever needs it. Wear it on TV. Is it magic? Will it breed spine? Send one to a special Washington someone and see.

Just wear it. If you do, however, be sure to adjust and pull the droop so it aims at your nose, not straight up. Some people have no style sense.

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Sources - many of these also give the history of the cap.

(1) //languedoc-france.info/06141204_libertycap.htm
(2) //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygian_cap; this site also sets out much of the above
(3) ://yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com/what-phrygian-cap.html
(4)://mushroom-atlantis.blogspot.com/2006/09/phrygian-liberty-cap-and-magic.html - on Delacroix "Liberty Leading the People"
(5) ://housebarra.com/EP/ep06/16cap.html - THIS ONE HAS A PATTERN FOR IT - GET CRAFTY.
(6) ://www.sacred-texts.com/sro/rrm/rrm34.htm
(7) ://gallery.villagehatshop.com/gallery/
(8) ://www.blastmilk.com/decollete/revolutionary-fashion/caps-and-cockades.php
(9)://www.shee-eire.com/Herbs,Trees&Fungi/Fungus/Liberty-caps/Factsheet1.htm
(10)//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe_semilanceata.
(11)//www.magic-mushrooms.net/species.html
(12)://www.drugstraining.co.uk/DrugsInfo/info-magicmushro.html
(13) ://www.woolworks.org/patterns/libertycap.html
(14)://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/searchfr.php?function=find&keyword=phrygian

(15)://aramis.obspm.fr/~heydari/divers/marianne-eng.html