Holly and I both love a good hat, which is weird since neither of us wears them all that often.  Today we’re indulging this love from afar with a look at some of culture’s most iconic hats.

• P.F. Thompkins and his job at Hats in the Belfry
• Indiana Jones’ fedora and Crocodile Dundee’s hat
• Wizard hats, a la Rincewind and Gandalf
• “The Little Prince” and the hat song therein
• Jack Sparrow’s hat
• Crazy hats at the Kentucky Derby and royal weddings
• Amidala’s hats
• An anecdote about a production of “Hello, Dolly!” and the hats therein
• My Jayne hat and my Link hat
• Holly’s perpetual re-making of winter hats
• The hats in Jane Austen books, and the making up thereof
• Whether you can remake a bustle like you’d remake a hat
• Making hats from nonhat materials
• Similarities between hair and hats in terms of changing one’s appearance
• Advice from a former colleague: “Anybody can wear a hat. You just stick it on your head.”
• Hat head
• Hat etiquette
• Fezzes, and one I own that has peacock feathers on it
• Longshoreman hats, sombreros, berets and other iconic hats
• A William Gibson line about recognizing trends in hats
• Listener mail from Stacy, on the subject of our family game night podcast
• How Headphone Hats Work

My research:

• CNN: Kentucky Derby Hats
• Kentucky Derby Hats
• Most Iconic Hats in Movie History

Holly’s research:

• Millinery in Action: making a hat in the Stephen Jones workroom
• Crowns: A Brief History of Church Hats
• Hats and High Culture, Reconsidered
• 15 greatest hats of the world
• Mad Hatters – The Kentucky Derby
• Exhibit shows off the history of hats

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