Science Fiction Trivia

[RockDoctor]

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Is there anybody in there?

[Cholmondely]

This doesn't count:

https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Sector1/Digebiti:

Other failed exports include the silk top hat, the tricorn and the pith helmet. Whilst hat-wearing is all the rage on Digebiti itself, and hats are worn by gentlemen of all ranks and none (not to mention the ladies), the particular fashions currently in vogue have proved of little interest to the sartorially inclined in other systems. There was a run on tricorns on some of the lobstoid worlds, but when the House of Lords came to understand that they were being used as knee-protectors, the trade was interdicted in a flurry of disgust and disbelief.

[RockDoctor]

This doesn't count:

https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Sector1/Digebiti:

Other failed exports include the silk top hat, the tricorn and the pith helmet. Whilst hat-wearing is all the rage on Digebiti itself, and hats are worn by gentlemen of all ranks and none (not to mention the ladies), the particular fashions currently in vogue have proved of little interest to the sartorially inclined in other systems. There was a run on tricorns on some of the lobstoid worlds, but when the House of Lords came to understand that they were being used as knee-protectors, the trade was interdicted in a flurry of disgust and disbelief.

Seems to fit the necessary criteria.
Tricorns appeared in last night's reading - a parallel worlds novel where time lines diverged in the late 18th century, and tricorns persisted.

1. Nite Owl with Indy's skull-covering.
2. Wildeblood with Ardala's ... I have a sudden memory of Jospehéne Baker. Art Deco and enough rhinestones to distract a hunting Liberace.
3. ffutures and Jay Cobb's firefly "tile"
4. Cholmondely and Digebiti's sartorial "elegance".

A plink, plink, fizz happens offstage. The mercury which drove Alice's Hatter mad has been added to the Chalice. Quite how I'm going to do that with effervescence, I haven't retconned yet, but I'll find a way.

[Cholmondely]

Here's some genuine "Science Fiction Trivia" for you!

Bevis Marks synagogue modernized around 1840. They threw out the antiquated tricorn and replaced it with the spanking new modern new top hat. They are still modern... they still wear the top hat.

I am told that the Synagogue de la Victoire are not. That they still wear the bicorn.

The great thing about the tricorn is that it predates waterproof clothing. You would bung one on your pate, and when the rain came, it would gather the water and sluice it over your shoulders down onto the street behind.

The pith helmet, on the other hand... if you were in the tropics, you could dunk it in river water and the evaporation would help keep your head cool.

[RockDoctor]

Here's some genuine "Science Fiction Trivia" for you!

You wear a hat to a synagogue? I though you had to wear one of those little lace doily things. Round, floppy beer mats. Whatever they're called? Same way that Christian women are meant to cover their hair - but not with a burkah. But with the same aim to avoid provoking the uncontrollable lust of the self-control-free menfolk.
I'm now trying to remember the address of any synagogue in any town I've lived in or visited. I've a moderate memory of thinking "huh, synagogue ; any Nazis to punch?" at least once, but unusually for my navigation-familiar mind, I can't remember where. Which suggest it was the only time I ever walked down that street, and it wasn't in a town I stayed more than a few nights in. Peculiar sensation that.

The pith helmet, on the other hand... if you were in the tropics, you could dunk it in river water and the evaporation would help keep your head cool.

If you can find enough water to dunk it into. Which you'd want to be drying into your hair for the next several hours.