Article: Baseball caps reign as England's top toppers

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 ...

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