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Article: Hats on: From poor-boy caps to Easter bonnets, sales are soaring.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- April 7, 2004
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Byline: Kay Harvey
The young are bringing hats back.
The trend started with baseball caps, lowliest of the low on the totem pole of fashion. Young people turned them backwards for effect. They slid them sideways, tilting the visor for a flash of panache.
Celebs such as Britney Spears and J.Lo raised the bar, sporting poor-boy caps to top off an alluring pose. Teens and 20-somethings began following their lead. And trendy women in their 30s and 40s picked up on the trend.
Hat sales have climbed 5 to 15 percent every year since the mid-1980s, according to numbers collected by the New York-based Headwear Information Bureau. Last year, ...