Vanity Fair Irked by the Fashion Power of MAGA Hats

Newsbusters ^ | August 19, 2026 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

Imagine if a magazine staffer had walked into the offices of Vanity Fair these days wearing a MAGA hat. It is not is not hard to envision the enraged reaction that would be directed towards that staffer. Most likely he (or she) would be subjected to demands to resign. Perhaps even therapy sessions to help those subjected to a view of such a hat in their "safe spaces" to treat those being subjected to such a sight. Indeed, it is also not hard to imagine similar similar reactions from leftists in other situations upon seeing the dreaded MAGA hats.

This could be because MAGA hats have become the most powerful article of fashion in history. In fact, Vanity Fair editorial director Mark Guiducci conceded as much on Tuesday in "MAGA Has Changed American Style. Who Defines It Now?"

The subtitle also reflects the sheer power of MAGA hats: "Eleven years after Donald Trump first donned a MAGA cap, what we wear has never more clearly been a signpost for our allegiances."

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[PJ-Comix]

Definitely the most POWERFUL hat in history. It has the power to cause a certain sector (liberals) to go insanely BERSERK at the mere sight of that hat.

[Dr. Sivana]

Not even close.

The headgear worn in the French Revolution was FAR more powerful.

(From Claude.ai)
The most iconic was the Phrygian cap, better known as the bonnet rouge or “liberty cap”: a soft, brimless, floppy felt cap, usually red, that first showed up in revolutionary imagery around 1789. It drew on ancient symbolism — Rome’s pileus, given to freed slaves, and the Phrygian cap associated with the East — to signal liberty and the overthrow of tyranny. It became strongly associated with the sans-culottes, the radical working-class revolutionaries, and during the most intense phase of the Revolution (the Terror especially) actually wearing one in public could be a matter of personal safety — not wearing it risked marking you as a suspected counter-revolutionary. It also got put on allegorical images of Liberty herself in revolutionary art and sculpture.

Alongside the cap itself, the cockade was arguably even more universal: a rosette of ribbon in the revolutionary tricolor (blue, white, and red) pinned to whatever hat you had on. This was probably the single earliest and most widespread revolutionary symbol — practically everyone, regardless of class, adopted the tricolor cockade on their hat as a basic loyalty signal, and going without one could get you branded a counter-revolutionary just as surely as skipping the liberty cap could.

[PJ-Comix]

So NOT wearing that hat in revolutionary France was dangerous but wearing it was safe? Nope! It doesn’t sound like it had the power of a MAGA hat that can instaantly reduce many into howling Moonbats.

[Berosus]

Between 2020 and 2024, I was expecting leftists to make and sell blue caps that said “Build Back Better,” as their response to the MAGA caps. To my knowledge, none of them did. Does this mean that liberals do not have the entrepreneurial spirit that many of us have? Or did they know, deep down, that a cap with a Biden slogan would not be popular, even in the cities where voters are overwhelmingly Democratic?

[Dr. Sivana]

The counter-revolutionary equivalent was the white cockade, worn on hats by royalists as a direct rebuke of the tricolor. White was the traditional Bourbon dynastic color, so pinning a plain white cockade (rather than the blue-white-red one) to your hat was a quiet but unmistakable declaration of loyalty to the king rather than the Revolution. This wasn’t subtle to anyone watching — there’s a well-documented incident from October 1789 at a royal banquet in Versailles where military officers publicly tossed aside the tricolor cockade and toasted the white one instead, which royalist officers and guests wore prominently; the National Assembly and Parisian crowds took it as a direct insult, and it’s often cited as one of the sparks that helped trigger the Women’s March on Versailles shortly after.

[Dr. Sivana]

I was expecting leftists to make and sell blue caps that said “Build Back Better,” as their response to the MAGA caps.

That would have been the fashion version of Air America. They knew better to engage on our terms.

[citizen]

Perhaps a valid point, in your mind, but unquestionably an obscure one. Go into any crowd of MAGA hats...or for that matter a crowd of no headwear at all, and talk of your felt caps.

A similarity is the liberals do want to behead or otherwise kill the red caps. And would if they could get away with it. The most horrible of fates were wished on those not wearing a paper mask.

[VanShuyten]

I would have thought the loons at Vanity Fair would have picked the pink pussy hats….

[Dr. Sivana]

Go into any crowd of MAGA hats...or for that matter a crowd of no headwear at all, and talk of your felt caps.

Only because they never learned about the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. If someone makes a statement that something was the most powerful piece of fashion ever, that is an objective statement that is not reliant of what anyone living today knows or believes.

Some Scottish tartans were banned during independence uprisings. That's pretty powerful.

If you wore Tyrian purple in ancient Rome, you were likely an emperor or general.

[DeplorablePaul]

Pink pussy hats fell out of favor overnight because black women objected that pink was not their color and therefore racist and exclusionary.

[TheThirdRuffian]

The Mao suit strikes me as more relevant to leftists.

Or the yellow Star of David armband. Or the Nazi armband.

Leftists loved all those, for various bad reasons

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

:: Pink pussy hats fell out of favor overnight because black women objected that pink was not their color and therefore racist and exclusionary. ::

PornHub disagrees ...

[stars & stripes forever]

“Build Back Better,”...

That slogan could well be a MAGA slogan. Trump is building back everything better, even the White House driveway and the grass.

[milagro]

Right on, right on on!!

[PJ-Comix]

This was probably the single earliest and most widespread revolutionary symbol — practically everyone, regardless of class, adopted the tricolor cockade on their hat as a basic loyalty signal, and going without one could get you branded a counter-revolutionary just as surely as skipping the liberty cap could.

Widespread in France and for a period of LESS than 10 years. Meanhile the MAGA hats are still going strong at 11 years and have morphed into a worldwide phenomenon with varations such as "Make Spain Great Again" as cited in the Vanity Fair article. Also did people instantly lose their composure at the mere sight of French revolutionary hats? We know what happens when liberals see a MAGA hat. Instant MELTDOWN.

So it seems obvious that the MAGA hat is the most powerful fashion piece in history. (Sorry, Robespierre).

Finally, what did the French Revolution really accomplish? They started by deposing a King yet ended up embracing an Emperor.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Vanity Fair is one of a million publications owned by the Newhouse family. They all write the same thing. Very soon, AI is going to be writing all their stories. And its so satisfying. There was a time when a Vanity Fair writer thought that she was some elite setter of fashion and social trends. Now they are contract writers doing piece work begging for scraps and whining on their blogs about a living wage and dreaming of being able to afford a pair of Miu Miu x New Balance 530 SL shoes.

[Dr. Sivana]

So it seems obvious that the MAGA hat is the most powerful fashion piece in history.

Because it has been around for 11 years? instead of 10 years? By that reasoning, Phil Niekro was more important than Sandy Koufax.

You say "it seems obvious" because it is not obvious at all, so you have to say it as filler.

Blood was pouring in the streets. For plenty, the tri-color was like José Wetback seeing an ICE vehicle parked at his place of work... he runs the other way.

A handful of performative Karens melting down is not the same as blood running in the streets with the guillotine running all day long.

[PJ-Comix]

Because it has been around for 11 years? instead of 10 years? By that reasoning, Phil Niekro was more important than Sandy Koufax.

Believe me, those MAGA hats will still be around 10 years (and more) from now.

You say "it seems obvious" because it is not obvious at all, so you have to say it as filler.

Obvious because we constantly see clips of liberals going BERSERK at the mere sight of the MAGA hat.

Blood was pouring in the streets. For plenty, the tri-color was like José Wetback seeing an ICE vehicle parked at his place of work... he runs the other way.

Blood was pouring in the street but the cause was not primarily the sight of the Frenchy hat. In stark contrast, the mere sight of a MAGA hat causes waves of liberal meltdowns.

A handful of performative Karens melting down is not the same as blood running in the streets with the guillotine running all day long.

LOL! Much more than just a "handful of performative Karens melting down." Try walking onto many campuses wearing a MAGA hat and see what happens. How many steps could you take into Harvary Yard before being surrounded by screeching lunatics going out of their minds? Sorry, but a French Revolutionary hat which was basically NOT the cause of the madness back then just doesn't hold a candle to the power of the MAGA hat. Oh, and the geographic reach of the latter (as the Vanity Fair article admits) is WORLDWIDE.