…attire by the gentry and, soon after, became the headgear of choice across the entire social spectrum. It was particularly popular in the late 19th century with the crowd at the Derby horse race at Epsom Downs. Americans took to calling the hat the "derby". The hat of bankers, workers and clowns, the…

…Per Hat: $15.25 Throughout most of the 19th century, Bonnets were one of the most common types of headgear worn by women. They would be worn outdoors or in public places like shops, galleries, churches, and during visits to acquaintances. During the 19th century most women would have had at least two…

…removal and when combed out, voila, hat hair is gone. (I have not tried this first-hand.) - Perhaps (I don't know for a fact though) a good 19th Century/early 20th Century barber took into consideration where on a head a hat would lay and cut a client's hair with the lessening of "hat hair" as an objective…

…Delicious Stumble It! Throughout most of the 19th century, Bonnets were one of the most common types of headgear worn by women. They would be worn outdoors or in public places like shops, galleries, churches, and during visits to acquaintances. During the 19th century most women would have had at least two…

…hat worn by Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter in the new Alice in Wonderland Movie. Similar, but also different and unique, The Alice Madhatter is a 19th century topper covered with black lace. The lace is multi layered with a different patterned piece underneath the exterior lace with a delicate floral pattern…

…hard and durable in order to protect one's head against low tree branches while riding horseback. Peaking in popularity towards the end of the 19th century, the style offered some middle ground between the formality of the top hat associated with upper classes, and the casual nature of soft flat hats…

…-made in the USA. Prized by antique collectors, hatpins were once commonplace, and controversial. As women's hats grew more extravagant in the 19th century, ornamented and jeweled pins, sometimes reaching 14 inches in length, were used to hold these elaborate hats in place. In 1908, an English judge…

…hat fashions are constantly changing. The fact of the matter is that hat fashions had not been changing very fast at all until the turn of the 19th Century. The expression therefore is likely about 100 years old.] Mad As A Hatter Totally demented, crazy. [Hatters did, indeed, go mad. They inhaled fumes…

…hat fashions are constantly changing. The fact of the matter is that hat fashions had not been changing very fast at all until the turn of the 19th Century. The expression therefore is likely about 100 years old.] Mad As A Hatter Totally demented, crazy. [Hatters did, indeed, go mad. They inhaled fumes…

…hat fashions are constantly changing. The fact of the matter is that hat fashions had not been changing very fast at all until the turn of the 19th Century. The expression therefore is likely about 100 years old.] Mad As A Hatter Totally demented, crazy. [Hatters did, indeed, go mad. They inhaled fumes…

…your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful” so wrote William Morris, noted English designer at the end of the 19th Century. It is with this segment of the business, women’s dress hats–millinery, that I found my long held notions about headwear challenged and expanded…

…Hatpins and History Prized by antique collectors today, hatpins were commonplace, and controversial. As women's hats grew more extravagant in the 19th century, ornamented and jeweled pins, sometimes reaching 14 inches in length, were used to hold these elaborate hats in place. In 1908, an English judge…

…was gaining a perspective on modern life that was fair to people's real experience of it." A look at who was wearing bowler hats, from the mid-19th Century onward, tells a lot about the this style’s resonance as a symbol for its time. Again, Professor Robinson, “As more and more bowler-hatted figures…

…your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful” so wrote William Morris, noted English designer at the end of the 19th Century. It is with this segment of the business, women’s dress hats–millinery, that I found my long held notions about headwear challenged and expanded…

…when combed out, voila, hat hair is gone. (I welcome all home-remedy suggestions.) * Perhaps (I don’t know this for a fact) a good 19th Century/early 20th Century barber took into consideration where on a head a hat would lay and cut a client’s hair with the lessening of “hat hair” as an objective…

…when combed out, voila, hat hair is gone. (I welcome all home-remedy suggestions.) * Perhaps (I don’t know this for a fact) a good 19th Century/early 20th Century barber took into consideration where on a head a hat would lay and cut a client’s hair with the lessening of “hat hair” as an objective…

…when combed out, voila, hat hair is gone. (I welcome all home-remedy suggestions.) * Perhaps (I don’t know this for a fact) a good 19th Century/early 20th Century barber took into consideration where on a head a hat would lay and cut a client’s hair with the lessening of “hat hair” as an objective…

…from the Balkans. The wide acceptance of the fez stems from the Ottoman Empire extending its influence (never to Morocco however) in the early 19th Century. They insisted that their subjects modernize dress and encouraged the fez in lieu of the turban. With the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire after…

…from the Balkans. The wide acceptance of the fez stems from the Ottoman Empire extending its influence (never to Morocco however) in the early 19th Century. They insisted that their subjects modernize dress and encouraged the fez in lieu of the turban. With the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire after…

…was gaining a perspective on modern life that was fair to people's real experience of it." A look at who was wearing bowler hats, from the mid-19th Century onward, tells a lot about the this style’s resonance as a symbol for its time. Again, Professor Robinson, “As more and more bowler-hatted figures…