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Friday, February 01, 2008
"Top hats...were by 1863 a distinctly modern costume. The top hat had been invented in 1797 by the London haberdasher John Heatherington, who caused a riot when he stepped outside with one perched on his head: children screamed, women fainted, the arm of an errand boy was broken, and Heatherington was hauled before the courts to explain the meaning of his alarming new invention sixty years on, these fears had been conquered and the top hat was omnipresent on the heads of both the bourgeois and the aristocrat...worn for both business and pleasure."
--Ross King, The Judgment of Paris
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