SOME FAMOUS HATS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 55, 2 September 1937, Page 22

SOME FAMOUS HATS

A SUGGESTED MUSEUM

Mr. Al. Smith's determination to hand over the famous "brown derby" hat to a museum in Dublin suggests that a curious and interesting collection might be made of notable headgear, says the "Manchester Guardian." Carlyle's "queer hat" which so impressed Barrie iv childhood and drew from an indignant bus conductor in Chelsea a crushing retort on the person who ventured to make mock of it would be an obvious choice. Then there would be ;he grey "topper" in i*ic4, worn back to front, Granville encountered Gladstone in Regent Street In mid-Victorian days. Among sporting hats a place, of honour would be found for the racing hat of the eighth Duke of Devonshire which, ft 3-? believed, he continued to wear even though forty-four ladies of his acquaintance sent him simultaneously a hat of the same make and size as a gentle hint Sir Pelham Warners harlequin cap, "W.G.'s" M.C.C. cap, and Lord Hawke's Cambridge cap worn peak behind would be obvious candidates. Disraeli would be among the statesmen remembered by hats, together with Mr. Churchill. Arthur Balfour's "deerstalkei" and Keir Hardies would make a good pair, and perhaps also that glossy "topper" which in the hand of the "radical" Mayor of Birmingham so surprised' old Tory members when Joseph Chamberlain became M.P. should have a place.