Happy Mad Hatter Day!!
October 6 is Mad Hatter Day because the crazy character from Alice in Wonderland has a measurement tag on his hat that reads 10/6. Fun.
I enjoy wearing hats and would love to see them come back as normal attire. I’ve been watching the Perry Mason movies from the 1950s, and all the women who sit in the witness box wear fancy hats. Some of them are better than others, but I love seeing the different styles.
Thinking about hats led me to wonder how many types of hats exist. After some research, I’ve decided that this number is unknown. Hat styles come and go, and any list I found was not complete.
I’d love for everyone to wear a hat today in celebration of a history of covering our heads. Luckily, women no longer decorate their hats with stuffed birds or extravagant feathers, and men aren’t destroying beaver populations and exposing hat makers to mercury just to have a fashionable top hat. However, a nice cloche hat or a fedora adds a bit of panache to anyone’s outfit.
