Gulyás Katalin – Horváth László – Kaposvári Gyöngyi szerk.: Tisicum - A Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok Megyei Múzeumok Évkönyve 20. (2011)

Történelem - Szathmáry István: A kunsüveg mint a katonai csákó őse

TISICUM XX. - TÖRTÉNELEM new recruits from this area, and over time it became popular and under the rule of Maria Theresa it was transformed into a typical military headwear, gradually replacing the hat and the calpac. This development of military clothes takes place regularly when an attractive but slightly comfortable piece is changed to a more practical form, and after becoming more decorated gives place to the next version. The shako got its name from the slant slash on the side of the new recruits' cap, and later other languages adopted it: shako, tschako, schako. In my opinion this slash is an expression of a general military attitude to life, awareness of danger and injury, and relates to the similar slashes of the landsknecht clothes. Numerous armies in Europe and later oversees took over the shako from the Austrian army to serve as an almost hegemonic headwear until the Great War. My theory is clearly supported by the overview of the development of the 18

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