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  1. Joe Riley

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    Gentleman's Top Hat of Raffia and Silk. French, c1820.
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    From your link:

    "The earliest top hat is often attributed to English milliner John Hetherington in a (possibly apocryphal) story in the St James’ Gazette in January 1797. Hetherington’s first public outing in the top hat caused a riot, and he was later charged for “having appeared on the Public Highway wearing upon his head a tall structure having a shining lustre and calculated to frighten timid people”.

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    Penny Singleton provided the voice of Jetsons mom Jane. The actress would have been quite familiar to older viewers, and aficionados of comic characters.
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    Is that a Panama hat?... Whatever it is, every time I see one like it now, I think of Anthony Hopkins and the final scene of Silence of the Lambs.

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    Yes...a size 007 Panama hat!
     
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    The pickelhaube. I always wondered what the pointy things were for. Do you head butt someone with your helmet?
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    No. They were originally used to mount tassels, usually made of horse hair. Prussian army, 19th century.

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    Maybe you could stick messages or memos on the pointed top?
     
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    JACKIE KENNEDY'S PILLBOX
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    They're both Fedoras...so is mine.

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    H.S.T.

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    My hat's bigger.....

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