Top hats – a most impractical invention

Top hats – a most impractical invention

I imagine most of the male characters in my new novel ‘Mr Blackwood’s Fabularium’ to be wearing top hats. The fact that top hats retained their popularity for so long is odd. In the eighteenth century men wore tricorn hats, which are said to have been the most aerodynamically efficient hats ever designed. (The harder the wind blew, the more it jammed the hat down […]

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