HATS AT MEALS
In the seventeenth century it was the custom for al- ranks of Englishmen commonly to wear their hats at meals. Members of the aristocracy, who doflied their headgear before "seniors, were not expected to do so at dinner. There was a rule in force at the Charterhouse, in 1662, which orders .poor brethren, inferior officers, and other members of the charity, "that they are not to presume to wear their hats in the presence of the master of the hospital except it be at table." Pepys has an entry in his diary in which he speaks of having caught cold in his head by flinging off his hat at dinner. This was the practice of the fuddled, diner, and was responsible for the saying, "When the meal's dono off goes'the hat," illustrating a condition which gave riso to the modern, "When tho wino is in, the wit is out."
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 129, 2 June 1928, Page 26
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152HATS AT MEALS Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 129, 2 June 1928, Page 26
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