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Issue 74 / 2015
FASHION
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Fashion timeline: Bucket hats
There's only one way to top your head this summer and that's with a bucket hat. What started out as a purely functional
bit of kit got a urban twist in the eighties and nineties, before falling out fashion, only to be seen on shifty, shuffling fellas
at the back of the rave. Thankfully, hip hop and high fashion have stepped up – the bucket is back
1940s – The Israeli Defence Force needs protection from the fierce sun. Floppy
brimmed bucket hats were born.
1979 – Sugarhill Gang rock bucket
hats in 'Rapper's Delight', and the
headgear goes hip hop for the first
time.
1964 – Gilligan, of Gilligan's Island,
brings the bucket to US television
screens.
1983 – LL Cool J sports a Kangol number and proceeds to rock a bucket hat for
basically the rest of the decade.
Early to mid 90s – Liam Gallagher
wears a range of hats turning the
bucket into a Britpop symbol.
2000 – Kevin and Perry take the
bucket to Ibiza in the seminal Kevin
And Perry Go Large.
2005 – Tony Yayo brings the bucket hat back to hip hop when he sports a white
number in the video for 'Curious'.
Late 2000s – The hip hop community embrace the bucket once more; Cam'ron,
Diddy, Eminem, Ja Rule, Fat Joe, Earl Sweatshirt, J Cole, Rick Ross, Gucci Mane,
Nas, Mac Miller all top one
2014 - Chris Brown sports a
colourful bucket in his video for
'Loyal'. Rihanna, also a devotee of
the bucket, is seen wearing one in
her post-World Cup final photo with
German footballer Mario Götze.
2015 – Expect London streets and festival fields to be awash with buckets this
summer
2013 – ScHoolBoy Q rarely emerges
without a bucket. Not surprising
given that he once said "I don't
spend money on nothing, besides
my daughter, bucket hats and
weed." An LL Cool J for our times.
The bucket also goes high fashion
as supermodel Anja Rubik dons one
for the cover of Spanish Vogue.
