Akubra

The Australian company makes Akubra hats since 1912 forth under this name, but the company's history is older.

In 1847, the immigrant from England to Tasmania Benjamin Dunkerley, hats began to manufacture. In the 1880s, the company was relocated to the vicinity of Sydney. 1902 joined the immigrant from England also milliner Stephen Keir I joined the company three years later and married Ada Dunkerley, the daughter of the company founder.

Since then, the company that was founded in 1911 in Dunkerley Hat Mills Ltd renamed by descendants of Stephen Keir I and Ada Dunkerley passed.

In 1912, finally found the first time the trade name Akubra use. It is claimed that this handle to a name from the Aboriginal for a head covering. The material rabbit hair is used and very expensive processed into felt for many models.

The hats were selling better and better, especially since the company was supplier to the Australian Army during the First World War, and this role was also in the Second World War. Furthermore, often wore the Australian athletes Akubras at the Olympic Games as part of their official clothing. It was also helpful that the character played by Paul Hogan movie character Crocodile Dundee wore a Akubra.

The term is used Akubra in Australia often synonymous with all the hats of this kind. The official website of the Prime Minister lists four Australian cultural icons on: the Sydney Opera House, the famous rock Uluru, Vegemite and the typical Akubra hat. The combination of Akubra Driza -bone with a jacket is considered quintessential Australian, although it is rarely encountered in practice.