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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's ...
Top hat: Also known as a beaver hat, a magician's hat, or, in the case of the tallest examples, a stovepipe (or pipestove) hat. A tall, flat-crowned, cylindrical hat worn by men in the 19th and early 20th centuries, now worn only with morning dress or evening dress.
A Mexican hat with a conical crown and a very wide, saucer-shaped brim, highly embroidered and made of plush felt Tam o'Shanter: A traditional flat, round Scottish cap usually worn by men (in the British military sometimes abbreviated ToS) Top hat: Also known as a beaver hat, a magician's hat, or, in the case of the tallest examples, a ...
Anthony Eden hat; Beaver hat; Beefeaters' hat; Bicorne; Boater, also basher, skimmer; Boss of the plains; Bowler, also coke hat, billycock, boxer, bun hat, derby; Busby; Bycocket – a hat with a wide brim that is turned up in the back and pointed in the front; Cabbage-tree hat – a hat woven from leaves of the cabbage tree
The article stated that, at that time, bearskin hats cost £7–5s each (about 35 contemporary US dollars; [43] £600 in 2007 pounds) [44] and noted "it can readily be seen what a price has to be paid for keeping up a custom which is rather old, it is true, but is practically a useless one save for the purpose of military display." [45]
For years Stetson worried about the waterproofing and finally decided to make his hat of beaver felt. [5] It took about 42 beaver belly pelts to produce a high-quality hat. [6] One story tells of a cowboy crossing a long dry stretch of prairie. His canteen sprang a leak. He saved the drinking water by carrying it in his Stetson. [7]
The tricorne or tricorn is a style of hat in a triangular shape, which became popular in Europe during the 18th century, falling out of style by the early 1800s. The word "tricorne" was not widely used until the mid-19th century. During the 18th century, hats of this general style were referred to as "cocked hats".
In Watson's terms, The Fur Trade in Canada is a "complex analysis" of three distinct cultural groups: metropolitan European customers who bought expensive beaver hats, colonial settlers who traded beaver fur for goods from their home countries and indigenous peoples who came to depend on European iron-age technologies. [26]