Wigs and Top hats

When Europeans wore wigs, they either wore wide brimmed hats (17th century) or three cornered hats (18th century). The top hat is a 'bourgeois' innovation of the 19th century.

created specifically for those suffering from baldinitess and whom really weren't up to wearing wigs.

Frightfully uncomfortable.

More likely created for those lousy persons for whom calvity was more a hygienic choice than the result of maturity.

Tsk,the top hat (or "topper")was the invention of noted London milliner Thomas Frabjoyle, created specifically for captain of industry George "Ironworks" Ironworks (The "Eighth wonder of Keighley") whose social life was largely arranged by his wife, the upwardly mobile Euphemia who, having never fully recovered from a jibe made about her gardenias by a certain Mrs Slot of Derby at the eighth annual All-Province Christian Display had developed a maddened, irrefutable passion for the choral works of Johann Sebastian Bach, by way of proving her cultural mettle. Mr Ironworks couldn't abide Bach, preferring to slip into a reverie in his private garden wherein he would anticipate the rise of the musical theatre with unbridled relish. In order to survive the interminable concerts he implored Mr Frabjoyle to furnish him with (cf: Scrabster Review 08) "a hat of huge proportions, therein to hide several fine bottles of good Sour Ale, thus to resist the better the organs of the German Nancy"

Weren't up to wearing wigs. I mean really.

I stand corrected and studiously tip a topper in your general direction Mister Matt(apply cockney accent). Apologies at my profound and most ridiculous ignorance.

;)

you are forgiven...

I have been wearing my pet haggis as a hat, but tonight it makes the ultimate sacrifice and becomes my Burns Night supper

once I wore a paper snowflake for pants.... they sent me home from school