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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]]'''}}
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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".
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== 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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