Overseas Cap - Question

[wolfslair44]

Alright, I'm new to collecting so try not to laugh too much. Just curious, I've been trying to find out why the Germans called them 'Overseas Caps'. Seems that these were worn everywhere both on the continent and overseas, or am I missing something?

[besslein]

becose this cap looks like a shiff.

[OSS]

Alright, I'm new to collecting so try not to laugh too much. Just curious, I've been trying to find out why the Germans called them 'Overseas Caps'. Seems that these were worn everywhere both on the continent and overseas, or am I missing something?

I don't believe yhe Germans called them "overseas caps" (though the Americans did, possibly because they associated them with campaigns overseas), they call them Shiffchen or has already been said "little boats" because of their shape.

[wolfslair44]

I don't believe yhe Germans called them "overseas caps" (though the Americans did, possibly because they associated them with campaigns overseas), they call them Schiffchen or has already been said "little boats" because of their shape.

That makes sense. Thanks.

[Tim O'Keefe]

While in the USMC, we call them "piss covers"

Semper Fi

[Mike Swan]

You'll also encounter "garrison" caps and "forage" caps.

Mike

[JasonA]

Hi Scott,

You'll quickly find that collector nomenclature is often very different from how the soldiers themselves referenced things they used/wore. It's almost like you have to learn two languages.

J-

Alright, I'm new to collecting so try not to laugh too much. Just curious, I've been trying to find out why the Germans called them 'Overseas Caps'. Seems that these were worn everywhere both on the continent and overseas, or am I missing something?

[Obergruppen2]

Over seas cap is an English name for schiffchen, translation - boat, ship, small rowboat or sailboat designed for shallow waters, when you turn the cap upside down it resembles a boat

[Ian Hulley]

Actually in England we call them a 'sidecap' or a 'chip bag' named after the traditional shape of the paper bag chips (that's potato chips or 'French fries' as our trans-atlantic cousins prefer to call them ) come in before they are wrapped in newspaper.

Ian