TALLER SILK HATS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 27, 1 February 1908, Page 11

TALLER SILK HATS.

The question whether the tall hat shall become taller is now being anxiously debated by the half-dozen We.;t End hatters who rulo tho fashion, and several of them (according to the Daily Mail) have almost decided to take a stop in that direction, by an increase of one-sixteenth of an inch in height. "The Englishman," said a West End batter, "is never violent or conspicuous in changing a fashion, and only a very plight alteration can bo made at a time. For "two or three years, however, there has been no decided cktuige.in the shape of the top-hat, and it fcems about time there was some alteration. The limit' of shallowness seems to have been reached. They are now being made six inches deep in small sizes and about six and a quarter in the largest, co that they can only grow taller again. A sixteenth, or even a quarter, of an. inch does not sound vpry much, but it really makes\ a great deal of difference in the appearance of a hat. The very tall hat of fifteen years ago was only tix and fivo-cighths inches deep. "I do not believe, however, tho tophat will become as deep as that again. T!io bell shapo has come to stay, and if sou increase tho depth, the shape must either become nearly straight or display a conspicuous and inelegant waist."