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[One article in a series on Iconic Hat Styles]
If the bowler connoted a more democratic future, the top hat, most certainly represented, in the words of hat historian Colin McDowell, “. . . the power of political conservatism and the rule of the status quo.” The top hat traces its origins to the tall sugar loaf hats of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance.
After an 18th Century hiatus where the tricorne and bicorn (also known as the cocked hat) supplanted the high hat as the fashion of the day, the high hat, in its new iterations, most notable the stove pipe shape that we now know as the top hat, returned to rule the day in the very late 1700s. It’s reputation was firmly established when, in 1890, the St. James Gazette wrote, “When we are told, ‘He’s a fellow who wears a top hat and a frock coat,’ we know sufficiently well what sort of fellow he is.” When Edgar Degas paints his series of Portraits at the Stock Exchange, he certainly is commenting on this stuffy, out of touch, segment of society.
Of course, Freudian psychologists had their own interpretations on these hats and those who wore them regarding them as obvious phallic symbols. As funny and impractical as top hats may seem to our modern ideas on fashion, they have stood the test of time. True, after the advent of the automobile at the beginning of the 20th Century, and the top hat’s impractical fit (literally and figuratively) in the Modern Age, the top hat’s popularity did wane. Nevertheless, this hat is a survivor. High school seniors seek them out at prom time. Undertakers and Christmas carolers still wear top hats as an integral segment of their dress.
The hat comes out at weddings and at big days at the horse races. The collapsible opera hat, also know as the Gibus, named after its inventor Frenchman Antoine Gibus, is still sufficiently popular that a New York manufacturer has a successful business today with this style hat as its sole output. And Uncle Sam, symbol of democratic America, for some reason still prefers a top hat–perhaps because even with all its elitist connotations, the top hat was still a move in the right direction from the crown.
Fred Belinsky is the founder and president of The Village Hat Shop. The 4-store California chain is 27 years old. http://www.VillageHatShop.com, launched in early 1997, was the first online hat seller. Belinsky also runs http://www.Berets.com. Private label brands include Jaxon Hats, JaxonHats.com, and sur la tete. More of Belinsky’s articles can be seen at his HAT BLOG. VillageHatShop.com also publishes THE COWBOY HAT, an ezine featuring short fiction, essays, and poetry about the American West and the Mexican-American Border.
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