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Top 10 hats to wear from 1 (most popular) to 10 (least popular): Baseball Cap, Cowboy Hat, Fedora, Top Hat, Sombrero, Beret, Gatsby(Newsboys Cap), Bowler, Boater, (or Skimmer), and the Fez!! What do YOU wear?
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As the proud owner of a hat, you can: fan a fire, water your horse, gather berries (best done before watering your horse), admire your silhouette on the ground when horseback riding, feel taller and stronger, AND with the right shaped hat......, be rather unique!!
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In Wyoming, it is illigal to wear a hat that obstructs people's view in a public theater, or a place of amusement.
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The Cowboy Hat John Wayne wore in the Westerns, "Big Jake", "The Cowboys", and "The Train Robbers", sold for $119,500...., BELIEVE IT OR NOT!!!
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John Wayne's Green Wool Beret worn in his film, "The Green Berets", recently sold for....$179,250!!!
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Seattle, WA is the home of the World's largest Cowboy Hat on display
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If you get caught in the rain and your hat gets wet, let it dry out slowly!! - Texas Bix Bender
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National Hat Day is held each year on January 15th!!
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The hat that John Wayne wore in the last film he made, "THE SHOOTIST", is worth approximately $10,000!!
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If you are a woman, NEVER wear a hat on the back of your head. Tilt it, pull it down, or wear it straight!!
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If a Cowboy's wearing his hat so low, it covers his eyes......, LOOK OUT!!....., HE'S on the prowl, BUT still MARRIED!!!
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One of Oregon's most unusual historic homes has been transformed into Portland's quirkiest attraction......, The Ladd-Reingold House (THE HAT MUSEUM) has a 100 year old legacy of Milliners and Hat Fanciers! Their comment about this FANTASTIC establishment is: "We've been bonkers for hats even longer than you have".
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BELIEVE IT OR NOT!!! In Fargo, North Dakota, a city law states that one may be jailed for wearing a hat while dancing, or even for wearing a hat to a function where dancing is taking place. What about the Cowboys???
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"Without Hats, we would have NO Civilization" - Christian Dior
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According to the legend The Panama Hat obtained its name when Teddy Roosevelt participated in the inauguration of the Panama Canal (1913). During the event he received an Ecuadorian straw hat as a gift, and without knowing the true origin, he thanked his guests for the gift mentioning it as a "Panama Hat".
Wearing a hat DOES NOT cause baldness, OR a receding hair line…., THAT is caused by genetics!!
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool. He changed it every 2 innings.
To "throw your hat in the ring" is an Americanism dating back to the early 19th century meaning to enter a contest, especially to declare your candidacy for political office. The "ring" in question was originally a boxing ring or ot her venue set up for fighting. Evidently it was the custom on the American frontier for a pugilist to literally throw his hat into the ring as a way of announcing that he was prepared to take on anyone in the crowd. The first use of the phrase in a political context was probably in 1912, when Theodore Roosevelt announced his intention to challenge William Howard Taft for the U.S. presidency: "My hat's in the ring." .
The first person to wear a top hat in public was James Hetherington. Such a large crowd gathered around him that some people fainted in the rush and one person was injured. The police arrested Hetherington and fined him £ 50 for disturbing the peace.
Men never tipped their hats to other men in the Old West. It was like calling them a woman. A common greeting when not shaking hands, was a simple nod. A tip of your hat would have resulted in either a gunfight at “High Noon”, or an invitation to leave town,...QUICK!!!
In a New York City auction given by GUERNSEY‘S, starting bid for The Wicked Witch of the West’s hat worn by Margret Hamilton in “THE WIZARD OF OZ” (1939, MGM) was $30,000. After numerous bids, it eventually sold for the unbelievable price of $170,000!!!!!
A Beret, popular in many countries today, was actually worn in Mesopotamia thousands of years ago.
In Ancient Rome, the wealthy wore hats only for hunting and travel.
A leather hat is a good hat to be worn by a man that drives a jeep.
In the Edwardian age, it did not matter if you were poor or rich, old or a child;whatever the status of a person, wore a hat. Only beggars went bareheaded. Even militant suffragettes did not campaign without a hat. The hat would be fairly functional in style and form, but a hat was still worn.
If a Cowboy wears his hat tilted to the left, he's more than likely drunk.
The Fedora, a soft felt brimmed hat, comes from the Austrian Tyrol, and was named after the play, FEDORA by the French playwright Victorien Sardou, which was on stage in Paris in 1882.
The Gatsby is a soft brimmed hat (cap) popular in New York after the turn of the century made from eight quarter panels. The style, very similar to a beret, was popular in Europe and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries among both boys and adult men. As the name suggests, it is now associated with newspaper boys, and it is sometimes associated with wealthy golfers as well. This was the chosen cap to wear for the movie called "The Sting", staring Paul Newman and Robert Redford.
The original "cowboy hat," manufactured by John Batterson Stetson, and called the "Boss of the Plains," was a light-weight, high-crowned, wide-brimmed, waterproof, fur-felt hat. It had a rounded six inch crown with a flat seven inch brim. A plain hatband was fitted to adjust head size.
Greta Garbo wore a soft felt hat in several of her movies thus giving this style of hat its name...The Garbo Slouch Hat.
Abraham Lincoln's hat is on display at The Smithsonian Institute. His hat size was 7 1/8.
The Mexican Sombrero, usually made of felt or straw, owes its name to the Spanish word Sombra, "shade," for reasons obvious to anyone who's been south of the border.
The Audubon Society was founded in order to protect the bird population from Edwardian millinery trends, sometimes whole birds were put on the hats.
Traditional Cowboys never cleaned their Cowboy Hat - other than a simple slap with their hand, or against their leg as they picked themselves up. A rinsing was something rain or snow provided, or the hat got a bath when it's owner did.
In 1814, Louis Conte, a court entertainer in France, became the first person to pull a rabbit out of a hat.
The original Indiana Jones' hat lives at George Lucas' 5,156-acre Skywalker Ranch in Marin County California. It is priceless.
The Hat Act of 1732 - In the early 1700s, hat making had begun to thrive in America. Britain responded with the HAT ACT of 1732, which forbade the export of beaver felt hats made in the colonies. Britain forced Americans to buy British-made goods and pay heavy taxes on them.
The baseball cap is America's most significant contribution to the world of the modern hat. Originally vizorless, the current version first gained widespread popularity when it was worn by Babe Ruth.
The Anchorage Daily News ran a story on Kasilof Bar's Cap collection at the Tustumena Lodge, Kasilof, Alaska making the Guinness Book of World Records. 22,014 and growing. They are presently closed. Faded off into Sunset of "The Land of the Midnight Sun"!!!
One hat that is DISTINCTLY AMERICAN is the broad brimmed Ten Gallon hat of the Southwest.
The more :"X's" in a hat, the more Beaver. The more beaver, the better the hat. If you're purchasing a 20X Beaver, be prepared to spend upwards of $400.00!! Can you figure what a 100X Beaver would cost? ARE YOU SITTING DOWN? ANS: CLOSE TO $2000.00!!!!!
In an attempt to Westernize Turkey in 1920, The Fez was abolished. Those who insisted on wearing the hat, changed their minds very quickly, after a few of the other lasting Fez wearers were executed by hanging.
It is said that the higher the crown, and the bigger the roll on a man's hat, the more cattle he has.
An "OLD" Rancher from Seguin, Texas wearing a 100x Beaver Silver Belly at a show I was doing, said "Son, if you wear a straw hat after Labor Day, you're considered a Farmer". When I was told this, it was in October- dusty and hot. There were a lot of Farmers walking around there ....including myself!!
The more Beaver in a hat, the lighter it is.
In the 16th century, hat styles changed so quickly that a frustrated King Charles ll of England declared no further changes to hat fashion would be permitted at his court.
Annie Oakley, Buffalo Bill, Calamity Jane, and Wild Bill Hickock all wore Stetsons.
The basic function of a hatband is to tighten the crown of a hat.
The safest place for your hat is on your head.
The decoration for a hatband is always displayed on the left side of the hat as word goes, because the Knights in the Middle Ages wore his lady's feather on the left side of the hat to show his affection.....and it stuck!!
If you're thinking about buying a ten gallon hat in Kentucky, you might be advised that a law still on the books in that state forbids a man to buy a hat without his wife along to assist in the selection. (Believe it, or not!)
Ninth-century Frankish ruler Charlemagne, owned some 500 berets!
The oldest hat in the world may well be the familier "chef's" hat, which was worn in ancient Assyria as a badge of office in the kitchen.
Italy gave us the word Millinery, which now refers to the women's hat industry.
The first head gear worn by primative man was a simple band worn around the head to keep hair from falling in front of the eyes.
The first hat factory in the United States opened in Connecticut late in the 18th century produced crude fur caps.
In the 14th century, the Beaver hat first appeared in Flanders, and spread around Europe, and at the time womens hats took on fantastic shapes.
The three cornered hat, or the "tricorn", was the universal mens hat in Europe for most of the 18th century!
"Hold on to your hat" is an expression that originated in Scotland in the 18th century. Scottish soldiers were advised to keep their hats on in battle so they would recognize one another
The smallest hat worn by men in the 18th century was a tiny tricorn worn on top of a wig. It measured just two inches by four inches!
The phrase "A Feather in your Cap" comes from the 17th Century, and may be related to the custom of sticking feathers in a soldier's cap to indicate the numbers of enemy slain.
Hats became a part of high fashion in the 14th century. Men at that time wore hats shaped like the fez, or a brimmed hat remarkably similar to the top hat.
The older a hat is, the lighter it is.
The most expensive hat in the world was a hat worn by Napoleon, which recently sold at an auction for $30,000.
The Straw hat was first produced in America in 1798 by a 12-year-old girl in Rhode Island.
The Panama hat, made from the Jijippa plant, has never been made in Panama. It's made in Ecuador.
The most common hat in the world today is the so called "coolies hat" of China which is worn by one-third of the people on earth!!
A ten gallon hat only holds three quarts of water!!
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