The main heroine of the film sports a magnificent kubanka. It was made popular by the comedy “Irony of Fate,” which every Russian TV channel still feels obliged to run on more than one occasion every Christmas season, in honor of a long-standing tradition. A kubanka made of long fur, such as black fox, was an extremely fashionable accessory coveted by every Soviet woman. The classic Everyman hat from the 1950s, the Fedora or it’s close cousin the Trilby is the style we associate with Frank Sinatra, Indiana Jones, and Johnny Depp.
The design arrived to Russia from Central Asia and the Caucasus the Russian Cossacks in Kuban were the first to appreciate its merits.Ī classical kubanka (and its variation called papakha) is a round hat with a flat top, made of soft karakul lambskin. Yet another popular Russian hat is the “kubanka,” so named after the southern province of Kuban. The petushok design soon became so iconic that it was even made part of the Russian national team's Olympic uniform at the Vancouver Games in 2010. Quite a few also had a pom-pom or a bobble at the top. Many were emblazoned with the word Sport, or decorated with fir-tree or reindeer patterns.
These tall and flat knitted hats look like a cockscomb, hence their name. Decades of Olympic style in Team Russia’s uniformsĪ rival design that emerged in the mid-1970 was the so called “petushok” (literally, cockerel).
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