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beccaelizabethI sat down to write, I got derailed by the need to learn a word for a particular style of hat. As it turns out, there's a lot of words, and the ones used most commonly in English aren't necessarily the most accurate if you're from another language. English uses mostly cap, which isn't specific enough, or prayer cap, which is maybe too specific, or Muslim cap, which is definitely too *big pointy arrows*. Also while looking for the word I was looking for why I thought of it for this character, so I checked how common it is to wear (not required, not rare). Also I found where I probably got the brain picture: articles in the Guardian where they're not talking about a specific person but about Islam in the UK or something so they've got a picture of shadowy dude in The Hat. If they use it for shorthand I'll have seen it that way. It's a pretty hat though. Crochet star pattern. Very nice.
Words that probably lead to the kind of hat I'm thinking of if I google search include topi cap and kufi. Topi comes up mostly antelope so kufi it is.
... then I drop back in to a point of view problem and realise I'm writing as the kid's basically British dad, who would probably call it a skull cap after all. So that was a productive half hour of searching right there...
I only want to give the kid a hat so he can always have curls bursting out of it and one side all crooked. He's the kind of kid who gets two steps away from his mother and is instantly untidy. And his mother, of course, is of the impeccably dressed sort, neat under all circumstances. His dad reckons he's neat, because all his tools are in the right places in their belts and every belt is where he wants it. The rest is just clothes. He only has to wear them cause he doesn't own the ship. One day he will once again own all he surveys, and go back to wearing joint pads and webbing, like his family always did.
I have not yet found an excuse for this to come up in conversation.
Words that probably lead to the kind of hat I'm thinking of if I google search include topi cap and kufi. Topi comes up mostly antelope so kufi it is.
... then I drop back in to a point of view problem and realise I'm writing as the kid's basically British dad, who would probably call it a skull cap after all. So that was a productive half hour of searching right there...
I only want to give the kid a hat so he can always have curls bursting out of it and one side all crooked. He's the kind of kid who gets two steps away from his mother and is instantly untidy. And his mother, of course, is of the impeccably dressed sort, neat under all circumstances. His dad reckons he's neat, because all his tools are in the right places in their belts and every belt is where he wants it. The rest is just clothes. He only has to wear them cause he doesn't own the ship. One day he will once again own all he surveys, and go back to wearing joint pads and webbing, like his family always did.
I have not yet found an excuse for this to come up in conversation.