Interesting Facts About Hats

1. London black taxies were made tall so that a gentleman can ride in them without taking off a top hat.

2. White tall chef hats traditionally have 100 pleats to represent hundreds of ways an egg can be prepared.

3. Elizabeth I had a law according to which every person older than 7 years had to wear a cap on Sundays and holidays.

4. It is said that when John Hetherington wore one of the first top hats in 1797 in the streets, he was arrested for scaring people. He ended up in the court and paid 50 pounds sterling.

5. ‘Fedora’ was first a women’s hat then men’s. Now it is both. Fedora was named after the Princess Fedora Romanoff from the play Fedora.

6. Those who supply men’s hats are called hatters while those who supply women’s hats are called milliners.

7. French magician was the first to pull out a rabbit from a top hat in 1814.

8. The smallest hat worn by men was from 18th century and it was a small tricorne hat with dimension of two inches by four inches and it was worn on top of the wig.

9. There is still a law in Kentuchy that forbids a man to buy a ten gallon hat if his wife is not present to assist in choosing a model.

10. Colors of hard hats can have meaning and are used to distinguish roles on the construction sites and for safety. White hard hats are worn by supervisors or engineers, blue by technical advisers. Safety inspectors wear green hard hats. Yellow hard hats wear laborers while orange or pink is reserved for new workers or visitors.