What is a Smokey Bear hat?
The Smokey Bear hat is a hat with a very high crown and a distinctive fold with four corners. This is popular as a drill sergeant hat, ranger hat, cavalry hat, scoutmaster hat or lemon cat. However, its own name is the hat of the campaign because of its connection with the army. It was originally worn by soldiers during the First World War and then adopted Sir Robert Baden-Powell, who founded scouts and made a hat part of a scout uniform. Hat became a visible symbol of the Scout Movement and made the hat even more popular with defensive, military and outdoor organizations. Soldiers, the Royal Canadian police mounted, drilling sergeants, park guards and American state patrol officers also accepted the Smokey Bear hat.
The Smokey Bear hat was designed takction from elements for soldiers in the First World War, but it turned out that it was quite ineffective. Unlike Stetson, from which the hat was derived, he usually came with Chinstrap. This also did not wear back,But rather horizontal or sometimes slightly inclined to one ear.
Despite how the hat is really inefficient against the weather, the hat has become a traditional symbol of authority and expertise outdoors. Modern organizations that have accepted the Smokey Bear hat have created their own very unique and instantly recognizable variations. However, although Mountie or drill sergeant wears a hat, he is still well known as Smokey Bear Hat.
Smokey Bear Hat comes from poster production in 1944 for American forest service. The poster depicted the bear wears jeans and the hat of the campaign with the name Smokey. According to the popular faith, the poster of Crejed I was when the bear chick was rescued from a forest fire and named Smokey, but the opposite is true: the rescued bear chick was named after the character on the poster. Posters Smokey Bear, which wears a hat, have become a very successful and popular campaignAgainst forest fires and have been used for more than 60 years. The picture became so predominant that most people know the hat as a Smokey Bear hat rather than the original name.