Friday 13 September 2013

FELT HAT DAY: 1925

In the US in the Twenties a strange craze grew up around “Felt Hat Day”, September 15. Anyone who wore a summer straw hat after that date risked being physically attacked. When President Coolidge wore one on September 18 1925, it was front-page news.

In 1922, police reserves were called into handle a “straw hat riot” in New York in which scores of straw hats were destroyed by marauding “rowdies”. To prevent these attacks some people destroyed their own hats first.
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