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{{quote|''It isn't the scarlet sash and the fancy hat that makes you a commissar, it's the way you wear them.''|'''[[Ciaphas Cain]]'''}}
A subtrope of both [[Nice Hat]] and [[Bling of War]]. A large, high [[wikipedia:Peaked cap|peaked cap]] similar to those worn by [[Banana Republic]] [[Glorious Leader|dictators]]. The trope namer is ''[[Warhammer
Sometimes, especially if the cap in question is black with silver piping, it's [[Putting on the Reich]].
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* Chiri Kitsu in an episode of Zoku ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'', when she subjects the teachers and other students to surprise inspections in order to catch them unprepared.
* Chocolat from ''[[Sorcerer Hunters]]'' wears one of these ([[Stripperiffic|and little else]]) when she's in "combat mode".
* Washizaki from ''[[Riki
* [[Visionary Villain|Kanako Watanabe]] of [[Star Driver]] wears one of these as part of her Glittering Crux outfit.
* Russia in ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' wears one occasionally.
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* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|Blackblood]] in ''[[ABC Warriors]]'' has a head shaped like one of these.
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== Literature ==
* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s [[Gaunt's Ghosts]] novel ''His Last Command'', when Ludd is sent to get troops to the battlefield, he loses his cap getting
* The [[Honor Harrington|Grayson Space Navy's]] uniforms seem to be modeled after the US Air Force, so naturally they have these, complete with gold oak leaves and lightning bolts. It's stated that they seem to weigh at least 3 kilograms and cause the title character to feel like "some comic-opera costumer's idea of a prespace military dictator".
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Warhammer
** As noted above, the Commissars. Arguably a case of [[Putting on the Reich]] as well, as many commissars tend to wear black hats with skulls and eagle wings prominently displayed on the front. [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]] indeed. [[Commie Nazis]] [[In Space]]! ''[[Church Militant|Catholic]]'' [[Commie Nazis]] [[In Space]]
** Commissar [[Ciaphas Cain]] [[The So-Called Coward|would, on the whole]], [[Combat Pragmatist|prefer a helmet]].
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** Rocky the Flying Squirrel would occasionally wear one while announcing a commercial break.
** It was certainly a must for Fearless Leader.
* The "Banana Republic" in ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' and Thembria in ''[[Tale Spin]]'' have people wearing these hats. Baloo wears one as well, albeit a less decorated one.
== Real Life ==
* Played straight in Real Life in the 1990s with [[Russians With Rusting Rockets]] and Russian cops. Unlike [[Reds with Rockets]], they have these as part of uniform. But the caps are going to be abolished soon, replaced with smaller ones in the older Soviet style. Soviet officers did often have this kinds of caps as part of the dress uniform (hence the trope name), though Soviet caps were not quite as large as modern ones.
** An overview of Soviet uniform caps may be found [http://www.undertheredstar.com/ here], showing civilian and military caps from various decades, with different
** Modern huge peaked caps are disliked among the Russian military, derisively known as [[Banana Republic|"Pinochet caps"]]. They are also a case of [[Sukhomlinov Effect]], becoming larger and more fanciful as the Russian army weakened and grew underequipped and undertrained.
** As of recent years, Russian military funding has risen again, and coincidentally, they have adopted smaller caps lacking the double-headed eagle of the Russian federation and look similar to Soviet caps.
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