Apparently it holds some revolutionary tones in France at least, though I dont know how relevant a cultural touchstone it is in the current day. And the creator of the Smurfs being from Belgium, its more likely a reference to dissident culture in their southwest neighbor.
The Smurfs is a Belgian comic franchise centered on a fictional colony of small, blue, humanoid creatures who live in mushroom-shaped houses in the forest.
Yup... but you have to go back much further than that, because once you get to France, they just symbolize it as a freedom cap or something that completely masks it's true origin.
https://www.thoughtco.com/phrygian-cap-bonnet-rouge-1221893
Apparently it holds some revolutionary tones in France at least, though I dont know how relevant a cultural touchstone it is in the current day. And the creator of the Smurfs being from Belgium, its more likely a reference to dissident culture in their southwest neighbor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smurfs
Yup... but you have to go back much further than that, because once you get to France, they just symbolize it as a freedom cap or something that completely masks it's true origin.