Bobble hat

A bobble hat ( bobble hat, Plümmelmütze, poodle hood, hood Bommel ) is a knitted cap of wool, cotton, synthetic fibers or a blend with a bobble on it. This bobble has secured similarities with fur hairstyles as they are often cut for poodles and sits directly on the cap or by means of a cord it. It is used for decoration. If the bobble without cord sewn directly onto the cap, it is often used to remove her cap without resorting under the cap edge.

Bobble Hat, use in the maritime sector

Not only for the yachtsmen in northern latitudes the Bobble Hat finds its use, even in the fishery today it is still pulled over his head. Where the cap fulfilled two essential purposes, on the one hand she held the skull and neck warm and on the other it remained even sit on the head when it started at sea once violently to blow. - For this reason, once the blue woolen bobble hat was one among others for original equipment of the ship's boys in sailor schools; see equipment list of ship- boys school Travemünde- Priwall pos 15 and extract from the information sheet of the Hamburg sailor school Falkenstein 1962, see equipment

Bobble hat as clothing style

In England and in the Baltics this cap is widely used in all ages as a male garment. In Germany it is mostly worn by children and adolescents in the winter. In adults, it seems more original and has a personal style and brand recognition.

Was used the bobble hat among other things, invented by Tom Gerhardt series " Hausmeister Krause ", in which the figure Tommie always wearing a woolly hat.

The former goalkeeper Jens Martin Knudsen was the Faroe Islands during the game getting a bobble hat.

The depictions of Santa Claus since the late 19th century show him mostly with red bobble hat and white bobble.