Wikipedia

4971 readers

85 users here now

A place to share interesting articles from Wikipedia.

Rules:

Only links to Wikipedia permitted
Please stick to the format "Article Title (other descriptive text/editorialization)"
Tick the NSFW box for submissions with inappropriate thumbnails
On Casual Tuesdays, we allow submissions from wikis other than Wikipedia.

Recommended:

Use the search box to see if someone has previously submitted an article. Some apps will also notify you if you are resubmitting an article previously shared on Lemmy.

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

dantheclamman@lemmy.world

Plum@lemmy.world

Fez (hat with a long and complicated history) (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 2 days ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

9 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] turtlesareneat@piefed.ca 5 points 2 days ago

Tldr it's that shape because a turban was originally wrapped around it, apparently giving you the option of going turbanless which was desirable due to edict of some sort, and eventually people stopped wearing the turban around it at all.