He emerged from a cloud of smoke in a caftan and fez: half magus and half mirage.
Metzger.. -from Hakim Bey Real and UnReal The hagiography of Hakim Bey by friend and fellow Moor, Th. [...] When next I visited, Hakim Bey happily showed off a Snakes and Ladders game a friend had found for him in a resale shop.
No one (not even Boris Karloff in The Mummy ) did more to make the fez the headgear of the supernally hip.
Proudly worn by Hakim Bey, it was both symbol and sorcery.
The fez, or tarboosh, is a brimless cone-shaped flat-crowned hat usually with a tassel.
In that moment, the power and allure of Moorish regalia was fully revealed.
He emerged from a cloud of smoke in a caftan and fez: half magus and half mirage