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Article: Baseball caps reign as England's top toppers
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- April 2, 2001
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Baseball caps reign as England's top toppers
By BILL GLAUBER
Baltimore Sun
Monday, April 2, 2001
London -- A sartorial revolution has occurred in the land where
bowler hats and cloth caps once were the national head wear for
decades.
Britons have fallen in love with baseball caps.
The caps made famous in America are the only headgear included in
the latest retail prices index released this week by Britain's Office
for National Statistics. No top hats, no cricket caps, not even
bonnets for the royal races at Ascot made the list of 650 goods and
services that serve as a theoretical national shopping basket.
The basket, filled with everything from mortgages to health club
memberships, tracks ...