Talk:Karakul (hat)

HOW RELIABLE IS FOX
the reference to the foxnews article is that for real???? it seems that the article has been written by someone with too much imagination

WAY TOO MUCH REFERENCE TO RELIGION
It's a hat. That's all. All the religious nonsense does is make this already inadequate "article" even more confusing. Typical wikiality. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.139.127.189 (talk) 23:57, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Afghan Karakul website?
The improperly formatted first citation in the introduction (which in the reference list is a broken link) leads not to an "Afghan Karakul website" but to a catalog of karakul hats sold by a distributor in Pleasanton, California. What makes the "authenticity" of this site even more questionable is that one of the 3 hats for sale is a Karakul baseball cap being modeled by a woman. AnthroMimus (talk) 15:18, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Correct method of wearing Karakul?
In the African section there is this unsourced statement: " When worn properly, these caps are always slanted at an angle, and never placed straight on the head." This sounds like WP:OR. I will remove it if no one objects.IrishStephen (talk) 19:18, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

So what's on Brezhnev's head: karakul or papakha?
In this article it is credited as karakul, in the article about Papakha the exact same hat is given as papakha. In an other article it might even be a swim cap. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.2.87.197 (talk) 05:49, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

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Etymology
The etymology here seems suspect. The article says that the hat is named after the qaraqul sheep, but the article for the sheep says that the sheep is named after a city called Qorako'l, whereas the article for the city says its name is Uzbek for "black lake", not "black fur". Now, I don't speak Uzbek, but I do speak Turkish, which is closely related, and I can say that the Turkish for "black lake" would be "kara göl" while "black fur" would be either "kara kürk" or "kara post". There may some other Turkic word for fur that I don't know that is similar to kul, but the "black lake" explanation seems much more reasonable to be. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.38.193.33 (talk) 20:14, 19 October 2018 (UTC)