Fashion always looks with interest into the past, borrows long-forgotten elements from it and offers the public a new reading. Originally, malachai was a wide caftan worn without a belt. Such caftans were an accessory of both men's and women's wardrobes. The name of the cap-malachaya arose from an analogy: the cap of the Kirghiz and the Buryats with long fluttering details covering their ears resembled a Russian caftan-fly. Thus, both a loose top dress and a winter hat with earflaps are all malachai. The meaning of the word as an item of clothing has not changed. However, it also has a figurative meaning.
The occasion was the design features of the swinging open dress and three flap blades that distinguish the malachai hat. The meaning of the word in this interpretation was used when they wanted to say about a person that he is either very open, as they say, a soul for plowing, or simply loosening it. Now it’s not accepted to say that. Now malachai is just a cap with ear flaps and a variant of an old caftan. Both wardrobe items are deservedly popular.
Male malach
A man in malachi is very brutal. It is no coincidence that this type of headgear has long been a part of military uniforms. For the army he was sewn from sheepskin. The aviators had leather ones, and the polar explorers flaunted in large fluffy malachas made of wolf or dog fur with the same fur boots on their feet — it looked very beautiful and courageous.
The malachai warm hat is a versatile and very comfortable hat. The swinging ears at the lower ends have a braid with which they can be tightly connected under the chin, then no frost is terrible. If you tie them up to the top of the head, the headgear will appear in a lightweight version. Malachai is a hat with a visor that can be round or rectangular. Rectangular usually with several stitches attached to the top. Sometimes a visor is missing. Malachai is, in fact, a cap with ear flaps. In the 70s, the “snag” model came into fashion - an imitation of a malachi with raised ears - more economical, but completely without wearing options.
Female malach
Female malachai is a flirty ear-flaps, most often from fluffy fur of sable, raccoon, black-brown or red fox, Arctic fox. A slender girl in such a headdress, a tight-fitting short sheepskin coat and high-heeled boots looks unusually feminine and extremely impressive. A modern fashionable malachai fur is a voluminous hat, and to look harmonious, it must be worn with clothes tailored exactly to the shape, neutral color and smooth texture.
Universality is small
Sometimes malachis sew completely from one material, but more often they do it combined. On the inside of the blades, which are turned outward, there is one material, for example, fur, and on the head - leather, suede, cloth, knitwear, velveteen, etc. Both female and male malachas are very beautiful from short fur, for example mink or ferret . Such a hat, if it is suitable in size, is suitable for both women and men. Sable or from other fluffy fur malachi complement with a tail, sewn on the back, pompons. Such a product fits very well in different styles of clothing. It will be appropriate both in a casual set, and in a sports one. Tied on the back of the head, such a hat even has a name - malachai “skiing”, it does not block the athlete’s view and at the same time sits tightly on his head. Knitted earflaps with a bright and beautiful ornament will be good with a short jacket and jeans, you can pick up the same gaiters, a scarf and gloves to it. A cap with fluttering long ears looks very provocatively and even recklessly.
What kind of Russian winter without malachka and felt boots ?! Fashion designers understand this and create modern, beautiful and comfortable models. Even the German police not so long ago included a cap with earflaps in a standard set of clothes, which caused a storm of controversy and indignation, they say, the Germans could not wear a uniform cap of soldiers of the Soviet army.