T-birds. The Pink Ladies. Soldiers. The Teletubbies. Throughout history, film and television have featured countless horror groups, but perhaps the most recent to capture the world’s attention is the Peaky Blinders. Directed by Cillian Murphy in Steven Knight’s award-winning drama (which broke the television format)this show was inspired by a real gang in the early 20’s (though Knight approached the series as a school Western). Murphy starred in the show as Thomas Shelby, a devoted father and leader of a criminal organization who, for six seasons and nine years, evaded law and lawlessness alike, dancing with death several times along the way. .

“Peaky Blinders” has already attracted talent like Sam Neill, Adrien Brody, and Tom Hardy over the course of nearly a decade, with Oscar-nominated Barry Keoghan now joining the fray. Netflix’s “Peaky Blinders” feature-length moviewhich is expected to tell the story of Thomas as he finally enters the dark center of his life. Where did their name come from, and are there any misconceptions about how the Shelby tribe got it? Well, in the words of Thomas himself, no fighting! Instead, let us explain it to you.

The term “Peaky Blinders” was also popularized when the BBC show of the same name premiered in 2013, but even before that, the popular opinion was that “Peaky Blinders” was based on the violence that the real-life gang regularly engages in. on their enemies. In the series “Peaky Blinders”, Shelby and his crew sew scissors to the tips of their flat hats and use them to cut and slash their opposition, often in the face until they are blinded. This would seem to settle the matter, until you take a closer look at the actual timing of the existence of the Peaky Blinders in relation to the most important event in history: the invention of the scissors.

In the real world, the Peaky Blinders were created in the late 1880s and, like Shelby and his friends on the TV show, wore flat hats that became synonymous with the gangsters themselves. The reversible razor, however, was not produced in Britain until 1908, two years before the end of the Peaky Blinders’ reign and when they began to lose control of their territory with a rival gang called the Birmingham Boys. Hats off (no pun intended) to anyone who’s thought of a great startup story, but it’s not quite right, unfortunately. In fact, the smart and simple answer is that it all has to do with the Peaky Blinders clothes and maybe even the way they wear them.

Considering that the real Peaky Blinders turned 28 years too early for their name to have anything to do with razors, what is the truth behind the now famous criminal? Well, it’s really easy. The Peaky Blinders are named after their hats and caps. The hats worn by the pirates actually came with a peak, which would explain the “top” part of their name. “Wakhungu,” on the other hand, had a lot to do with the local language and how the bandits saw it.

In Birmingham, the word “skin” is associated with looking dapper, and it’s something that this group always strived for when walking down the street, often tilting their hats so that only one eye was visible and the other “blinded.” Also, the word “skin” it is often used to mean that someone is lucky with what they did or got away with it (“blindsided”). As for the more violent side of the name, the connection between the scissors and the Peaky Blinders first appeared in the 1977 book by John Douglas called “A Walk Down Summer Lane,” and apparently went down as an urban legend about the gang.

In the end, the origin of the name is not important. When it comes to a favorite scene, clothes don’t make the man, but being able to walk to the edge of town and slowly cross the railroad tracks makes you look good.