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Article: Top Hat
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- Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages
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Top Hat
Introduced during the early 1800s, the top hat became the most common men's hat of the nineteenth century. Worn by men
of all classes, for all occasions, at any time of day, the top hat was a narrow-brimmed silk hat with a tall, straight crown and a flat top. Formal, dramatic, and imposing, the top hat represented much of the spirit of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in which middle class and wealthy Europeans focused on elegance and formality in their dress and manners. The century even saw the first rabbit pulled out of a top hat by French magician Louis Conte in 1814.
The top hat had been preceded by other tall-crowned hats, most made of beaver fur felt and ...
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Article: Top hats, rosettes, badges and Roll over ...
The Mirror (London, England);
June 29, 1999 ;
700+ words
... ... were prayers, hymns, top hats and rosettes. And, of ... Party leader's trademark top hat. But those who came to ... badges, leopard skin and top hats. Outside in the small ... those in the shape of top hats which lay beside the coffin ...
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