History of Georgian-cap airfield

Theatre enjoyed immense popularity among the Tiflis public. Hearing charmed music lovers invited Prince Vorontsov Italian singers. Arias from Italian operas resounded throughout the city. They all sang - aristocrats, merchants and ordinary citizens. Italian melody rehash the Georgian way and served as a basis the emerging genre of urban romance. However, the October 11, 1874 the theater burned down under mysterious circumstances. It was destroyed almost all the sets, costumes, props and rich music library. Part of the Italian troupe had departed, some stayed to wait for better times to become for them hometown. Singers interrupted different jobs, not necessarily related to their main profession.



Tenor Salvatore Sicilian Kokutstsa (Kokotstsa) (namesake of the famous singer Mario Lanza - a born Alfredo Arnoldo Kokotstsa) decided to recall his father's profession (as a child he helped his father Salvatore vengeance in the manufacture of hats), and opened at Mikhailovsky Avenue (now pr. David the Builder) workshop making traditional Sicilian caps called "Coppola". Place for a workshop he was not chosen randomly. St. Michael's Avenue was mostly inhabited by Germans, and our lord Kokutstsa hoped that buyers of its products will they. However, in practice it turned out that the most popular Italian Coppola uses the Georgian population. Enterprising tenor immediately dug a second workshop in Kutaisi, in the city, as opposed to the Tiflis, predominantly Georgian population - and has not lost. Imeretia enthusiastically embraced the novelty and Mr. Kokutstsa caps have become very quickly spread throughout western Georgia.



So Sicilian cap settled in Georgia, thanks to Vorontsov, Tamamshevu, grand fire, engulfed much loved opera citizens and, of course, an enterprising Italian tenor Salvatore Kokutstsa, who found a second home in Georgia. By the way, in Kutaisi, these hats are still sometimes called "kokutsa-Kudi" (cap-kokutsa), though hardly imagined what it is - "kokutsa» PS Coppola (JRC. Coppola) - Traditional Sicilian men's cap, usually made of tweed. Fashion at the Coppola came to Sicily in the early XX century in England, where something like that worn by the gentry in the XVII century. Originally, it had only a Sicilian drivers, making it then very popular among the working class. Over time, her fashion spread throughout Italy, where it is still popular.



These caps have you seen on the heads of the Sicilian peasants in the movie "The Godfather". (They are called coppola siciliana - a Sicilian cap



Source: i-fakt.ru