Brown felt turban with 'V' rhinestone jewel

Brown felt pillbox with wool jersey scarf attached at bottom edge of crown, creating the effect of a turban. The centre front decorated with a 'V' shaped rhinestone pin. Victor de Lavelaye, head of the Belgian Service of the BBC, first devised the idea of the 'V' for Victory campaign in a broadcast to his countrymen on 14 Feburay 1941. Churchill popularized the symbolism with his upheld fingers in the V shape. Nazi Germany also comandeered the V, claiming it stood for 'Viktorio' an old Germanic word for victory.