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Top hat. Austin Lane Crothers, 46th Governor of Maryland (1908–1912), wearing a top hat. A top hat (also called a high hat, or, informally, a topper) is a tall, flat-crowned hat traditionally associated with formal wear in Western dress codes, meaning white tie, morning dress, or frock coat. Traditionally made of black silk or sometimes grey ...
A beaver hat is a hat made from felted beaver fur. They were fashionable across much of Europe during the period 1550–1850 because the soft yet resilient material could be easily combed to make a variety of hat shapes (including the familiar top hat). [1] Smaller hats made of beaver were sometimes called beaverkins, [2] as in Thomas Carlyle ...
John Hetherington. John Hetherington is an apocryphal English haberdasher. A frequently republished story from the late nineteenth century claims that in 1797 he invented the top hat and caused a riot by wearing it in public in London.
In 1832 a machine was invented in America which could mass-produce the pins, and they became much more affordable. During the 1880s, bonnets gave way to hats, and the popularity of hatpins soared. They remained a standard women's accessory through the 1910s and were produced in a vast range of materials and types.
By 1886, Stetson's hat company was the largest globally and had mechanized the hat-making industry ("producing close to 2 million hats a year by 1906"). [2] The Stetson Hat Co. ceased production in 1968 and licensed another hat company. [2] However, these hats still bear the Stetson name, with the hats produced in St. Joseph, Missouri.
The hats were usually yellow and were either pointed or square. [12] Carle Vernet's 1796 painting showing two decadent French "Incredibles" greeting each other, one with what appears to be a top hat, perhaps its first recorded appearance. In the Middle Ages, hats for women ranged from simple scarves to elaborate hennin, [13] and denoted social ...
Hat-making or millinery is the design, manufacture and sale of hats and other headwear. [1] A person engaged in this trade is called a milliner or hatter. Historically, milliners made and sold a range of accessories for clothing and hairstyles. [2] In France, milliners are known as marchand (e)s de modes (fashion merchants), rather than being ...
Chicago appeared ready to return to the top in 1885. The "Chicago Stone Wall", the greatest infield of its day, was in place, anchored by Anson and Ned Williamson, who hit 27 home runs in 1884 (25 at home, 2 on the road), a record which would stand until being broken by Babe Ruth in 1919.