Tall: The History of the Top Hat

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  • Опубликовано: 27 янв 2025

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  • @Kid_illithid
    @Kid_illithid 13 дней назад +351

    Imagine being some old guy in a tricorn hat. Then some young dude in a top hat comes up and you think to yourself, geez I hate these insufferable hipsters.

    • @tedecker3792
      @tedecker3792 13 дней назад +16

      I chuckled out loud at that!

    • @Mopartoolman
      @Mopartoolman 13 дней назад +14

      That's how I feel when I see some guy with his hat on backwards!!!!!!!!!!!!😁😁😁

    • @Kid_illithid
      @Kid_illithid 13 дней назад +9

      @@Mopartoolman I’m working out with my ball cap on backwards right now. I’m so sorry. He keeps the hair and sweat out of my eyes. And then when it’s sunny out, I turn it around.

    • @steadfasttherenowned2460
      @steadfasttherenowned2460 13 дней назад +14

      Can you guys remember the day you started sounding like your own parents?

    • @Kid_illithid
      @Kid_illithid 13 дней назад +10

      @ I actually can for real. I literally sound so much like my father. He passed away sometime ago, but when I hear my own voice I can’t help but think of them. It’s kind of uncanny.

  • @glendam1148
    @glendam1148 12 дней назад +108

    My husband, who lived to be 86, always loved hats, caps, etc, and he had an extensive collection. After he died, I made a remembrance tree filled with ornaments that were photographs of him wearing different hats down through the years - from a small boy to the end of his life.
    There are 55 ornaments on the tree, and each ornament is of him wearing a different hat. I regret that I didn’t make it for him when he was alive. He would have loved it. 🎩 🧢

    • @UrsineArms
      @UrsineArms 12 дней назад +6

      bless your heart maam

    • @BiggestCorvid
      @BiggestCorvid 11 дней назад +2

      You sound like someone who truly loved the ones he loved and that makes me smile. Did he have a top hat?

    • @pixilated6
      @pixilated6 10 дней назад +3

      You made the most appropriate thing that represented his personality and life. A most fitting memorial and a true honor to the man you love. No one could ask for anything more.

  • @paramounttechnicalconsulti5219
    @paramounttechnicalconsulti5219 12 дней назад +28

    Have to say it, you actually really rock a top hat.

  • @atheistpower5659
    @atheistpower5659 13 дней назад +46

    Hats off to you History Guy for making such a good video on this topic !

    • @bwhog
      @bwhog 12 дней назад +2

      You mean "hats on"...

    • @-danR
      @-danR 6 дней назад +2

      I must add that nobody looks better than him in a top hat 12:26 🎩

  • @almitydave
    @almitydave 12 дней назад +34

    When I was a kid my parents hired a chimney sweep, and he arrived in a suit and top hat. He was great fun, and seemed to really love his job. He was also fully appreciative of the archaic-seeming nature of it and really leaned into it.

    • @jeffcreech7010
      @jeffcreech7010 12 дней назад +2

      I knew a guy in St. Louis,Mo. that did that in the 80's.

    • @EricDaMAJ
      @EricDaMAJ 12 дней назад +9

      When living in Germany I was surprised German chimney sweeps dressed in the blue tunics with big brass buttons we Americans associate with Union Civil War uniforms. They explained to me the German Army wore a similar uniform during the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. German veterans from that war fell into chimney sweeping as a profession and their old uniforms became the profession’s national uniform in Germany. And remains so today.

  • @jec1ny
    @jec1ny 13 дней назад +49

    Eisenhower was actually the first president to dispense with formal dress at presidential inaugurations. In 1953 he opted for ordinary business dress over the traditional morning suit (striped pants, winged collar and claw-hammer coat with a top hat). This caused some controversy at the time, but at his 1957 inaugural, no one seems to have thought much about it. Unlike Kennedy, Ike did actually wear a hat most of the time. He wore a homburg to both of his swearing in ceremonies.

    • @edwardloomis887
      @edwardloomis887 12 дней назад +5

      Eisenhower got used to wearing hats during a career in the Army where you can't go outside without one unless you're on a flightline or in a helmet.

    • @jec1ny
      @jec1ny 12 дней назад +3

      @@edwardloomis887 Ike was in his sixties when became president and had lived his entire life in a world where almost all men, including civilians, wore hats. The 1950s was probably the last decade where most men still wore a hat when out of doors.

    • @richardgarno6591
      @richardgarno6591 12 дней назад +1

      Are you sure? I looked at pictures from his first inauguration. It looks like he and Vice President Nixon are wearing morning dress.

    • @galactic_socialist
      @galactic_socialist 11 дней назад

      Mason's still use top hats in many places

    • @michellepopkov940
      @michellepopkov940 9 дней назад

      Kennedy did wear a morning coat ensemble, but he carried his top hat at the Inauguration. Like he was tipping his hat to everyone at the parade. There had been a snowstorm the night before. The Army and others cleared the streets so the citizens could attend the event. It was cold!

  • @john_in_phoenix
    @john_in_phoenix 13 дней назад +30

    THG looks outstanding in a top hat! Well done sir.

  • @American_Jeeper
    @American_Jeeper 10 дней назад +13

    Lance, I finally realized why I enjoy your channel so much, your story telling does great credit to that of the late great Paul Harvey’s. Listening to him on AM radio, as my mother took me to school in the morning, was the best way to start the day and was certainly the impetus for my passion about history. Thank you for another great lesson, I greatly appreciate you.

  • @billrobinson9704
    @billrobinson9704 12 дней назад +18

    Some biographers report that Lincoln also used his top hat as a sort of brief case. Legal briefs, letters and other documents fit neatly within his top hat.

    • @TheHistoryGuyChannel
      @TheHistoryGuyChannel  12 дней назад +5

      Yes, he carried documents in the lining of his hat.

    • @L.D.Intheditch
      @L.D.Intheditch 12 дней назад

      The original post it.

    • @gordonmorris6359
      @gordonmorris6359 7 дней назад

      ​@@TheHistoryGuyChannelBoston Corbett had been exposed to mercuric oxide as a hatter, which may account for his strange behavior, conversion, self-loathing over lust, self-mutilation castration, reputation among his peers in the Union Army, his shooting John Wilkes Booth, and later reclusion.

    • @RLucas3000
      @RLucas3000 8 часов назад

      @@TheHistoryGuyChannelAw, you didn’t mention Batman’s classic foe, the Penguin! Promise if you ever do a story on umbrellas, you won’t forget him.

  • @mtnvalley9298
    @mtnvalley9298 13 дней назад +24

    Thanks for your efforts. So much fun, every time!!

  • @maryd9331
    @maryd9331 13 дней назад +37

    Looks great with the tuxedo! My hat of choice for a man, however, is the classic fedora of the 30's through '50s. 😊

    • @sks406
      @sks406 13 дней назад +3

      I wear a fedora daily. Often to much criticism since I am from Texas. I tell people, I am not a cowboy and therefore do not their hat lol

    • @MikeLau-d8l
      @MikeLau-d8l 12 дней назад

      Ironic that it was named after a woman.

    • @jennifergriffiths3941
      @jennifergriffiths3941 12 дней назад +1

      maryd9331… AGREED !!! (About tuxedos & top hats)…

    • @jennifergriffiths3941
      @jennifergriffiths3941 12 дней назад +2

      And a well shaped fedora … just like my grandpa used to always wear …

    • @doug6259
      @doug6259 12 дней назад +1

      I wear fedoras all the time too.

  • @chadwickjdillon
    @chadwickjdillon 13 дней назад +31

    Slash explained on a mid 2000's episode of UK Topgear, that he actually Stole his iconic hat from a thrift store!
    Perhaps innocently, but he explained he put it on in the shop, just kept wearing while browsing, and simply... walked out wearing it.
    The world has known Slash's silhouette ever since.

    • @Dfturcott
      @Dfturcott 12 дней назад +1

      I would like to tell you as someone who in his earlier life worked at concert venues in Detroit, I have seen slash perform a half dozen times and can assure you I have never heard nothing but kind words from any coworkers who have had to work for or interact with him. Just a solid dude.

    • @nedludd7622
      @nedludd7622 12 дней назад

      Why did anyone appear on Top Gear? It was so far from top tier, more like trailer trash.

    • @vaclav_fejt
      @vaclav_fejt 12 дней назад +3

      @@nedludd7622Top gear is the highest gear in a car's transmission, the original 1977 consumer TV programme was named after it, to evoque a positive image of motoring.
      The 2001 Jeremy Clarkson revival turned into more of an entertainment show with wide appreciation - not universal, as you show.
      That should answer your question. I'm interested, what kind of programmes do you like? Maybe we can get to the bottom of your passionate distaste that makes you go off topic.

    • @LeCharles07
      @LeCharles07 11 дней назад +1

      @@nedludd7622 350 million viewers per week would disagree.

  • @janlindtner305
    @janlindtner305 13 дней назад +20

    I once saw a drawing of how the cabin of a Critroen 2CV was designed. Four top-hatted men placed close together on ordinary dining room chairs And then you see the soft curved lines of a 2CV seen from the side and voilà the smooth 2CV was created. Nice lecture and nice to have new hat stories back on the program.
    By the way, in Europe the hat is called "a Cylinder"👍👍👍

  • @dennisboulais7905
    @dennisboulais7905 13 дней назад +9

    Very interesting episode. If I still worked I would consider wearing one to the office! Every engineer should have one.

  • @theequalizer9154
    @theequalizer9154 13 дней назад +25

    I do agree that whatever hat a man is wearing, you can tell the time a photo was taken. I do also collect men's hats, and Military covers.
    To add, the stovepipe hat that Lincoln wore to Ford's Theater is on display at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC. I recall it was on display.

    • @bcase5328
      @bcase5328 13 дней назад +1

      I heard Lincoln's wife complained that Lincoln used his hat as a writing desk.

  • @kraneiathedancingdryad6333
    @kraneiathedancingdryad6333 13 дней назад +10

    Today is my birthday too! Although I'm not as old as the top hat, I'm getting up there! A video just in time for my birthday, I consider that a gift 😁

  • @RoverIAC
    @RoverIAC 13 дней назад +19

    I hate wearing hates, except maybe a cap if I need too.... but I too have a collection of hats including a 1916 German helmet, an extremely big sombrero, my grandfathers bowling club hat, my great-grandfathers ship's captain cap and a heap of other ones not counting several bags full of caps.

  • @gusmc2220
    @gusmc2220 13 дней назад +11

    0:26 dashing!

  • @michaelbobic7135
    @michaelbobic7135 11 дней назад +4

    Thank you for this video. My father just passed away; he was a great fan of Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Billy Benedict, and David Gorcey, collectively known in their many films as The Bowery Boys. My Dad introduced me to them 10 years ago and whenever I saw one of their movies, we'd talk for hours about it. I'm disabled and haven't been able to go home to be with family since before Dad passed; learning about the real Bowery Boys brought Dad to be with me for a while. That's worth remembering the History of the Top Hat for me

  • @RolloTonéBrownTown
    @RolloTonéBrownTown 11 дней назад +5

    6:15 that poor short king. He got a tall top hat so he wouldn't stand out for being short but then everyone else got one and he found himself in the exact same predicement.

  • @7HeadsCustoms
    @7HeadsCustoms 13 дней назад +9

    As a bald man the utilizes a variety of hats every day, depending on the occasion, I appreciate your collection and this episode, thank you!!

    • @anthonycalbillo9376
      @anthonycalbillo9376 12 дней назад

      Hello from another bald man. I have a growing hat collection too!

  • @g.v.hedgpeth2602
    @g.v.hedgpeth2602 12 дней назад +6

    Hats off to you, History Guy, for this stylishly interesting video!

  • @Buie144
    @Buie144 13 дней назад +10

    You covered this one ! Great job!

  • @nickcaci7238
    @nickcaci7238 9 дней назад +3

    Amazing historical research…. I applaud, you sir in your content and delivery.

  • @JoeLux-bp6kt
    @JoeLux-bp6kt 13 дней назад +7

    I had to smile watching this. The most fun you have offered on a long time. Thank you. ❤

  • @JeremiahsFiles
    @JeremiahsFiles 13 дней назад +14

    According to my research, the white tie & tails is still the dress code for events like the Nobel Prizes, state dinners in Britain, the Mardi Gras masked ball in New Orleans, but after the counterculture of the 1960s, the black tie tuxedo became the most frequent outfit for formal events. Count Von Count’s white tie attire was inspired by Bela Lugosi’s portrayal of Dracula, & Fred Astaire was another master of the white tie & tails. Mickey Mouse wore a top hat with his white tie & tails in the 1947 Disney cartoon Mickey’s Delayed Date.

  • @tomobedlam297
    @tomobedlam297 13 дней назад +46

    We live in the era of the baseball cap. It would be worth an episode looking into how it has become so ubiquitous and for decades now.

    • @MistbornPrincess
      @MistbornPrincess 13 дней назад +3

      Probably they were cheap and easy to make? Also the proliferation of baseball in the 1930s/great depression.

    • @jimislaughterback6280
      @jimislaughterback6280 12 дней назад +2

      We live in the era of lots of boring stuff. That's why history is so interesting.

    • @VespasianJudea
      @VespasianJudea 12 дней назад +1

      @@jimislaughterback6280
      Trump is not boring. AI is not boring. Catching a rocket in mid flight is not boring. You’re living in history and like many before you, you don’t even realize it.

    • @cynicallydepressed1
      @cynicallydepressed1 12 дней назад +1

      @@VespasianJudea, based on the first two things you listed, I would really LOVE some 'boring'.
      Two things that may be the harbingers of the end of civilization.

    • @VespasianJudea
      @VespasianJudea 12 дней назад

      @@cynicallydepressed1 I love Trump. Then again I’m not communist garbage.

  • @AMAZON-ULTRA-FASHION
    @AMAZON-ULTRA-FASHION 13 дней назад +6

    "Success loves the fearless-embrace your courage."

  • @Ben-bg2lp
    @Ben-bg2lp 13 дней назад +10

    I always thought it caught on because magicians were the rockstars of the era.

  • @dguy0386
    @dguy0386 13 дней назад +5

    it's not every day that i make a plate of pasta and immediately find a good video to watch while eating it, but today is one such day! huzzah, bravo history guy!

  • @fearthehoneybadger
    @fearthehoneybadger 13 дней назад +33

    Since most of these were worn by people of means, the working classes often referred to the upper classes as "toppers."

  • @Oedwak
    @Oedwak 12 дней назад +5

    You got me with the opera hat. I've never been trolled with such style and panache. Touche!

  • @heidiedelman6840
    @heidiedelman6840 13 дней назад +4

    This was so interesting! Thanks! And I loved the ending when you showed your hat and how it flattens!

  • @HM2SGT
    @HM2SGT 13 дней назад +6

    5:01 *In the 19th century it was usual for fire departments to be comprised of volunteers. These groups got paid for putting out fires and multiple groups would rush to the scene to be the first and therefore the ones that got paid. This lead to many incidents of fisticuffs, battling to see who would get the plum prize while the building burned down! I think I may recall on the scene to this effect in the film Gangs of New York*

    • @JarrodFrates
      @JarrodFrates 13 дней назад +1

      THG has an episode on that very topic.

    • @JarrodFrates
      @JarrodFrates 13 дней назад +1

      ruclips.net/video/9yAK2zRiGAQ/видео.htmlsi=sQex1-bGh6OjBCm3

    • @HM2SGT
      @HM2SGT 13 дней назад

      @@JarrodFrates I had forgotten. I first read about it about 20 years ago when I was given a gift of a book about the history of FDNY

  • @JeremiahsFiles
    @JeremiahsFiles 12 дней назад +3

    Scrooge McDuck also wore spats, which have long been associated with wealth. Count Von Count usually wears spats on his tuxedo shoes, & so does Count Chocula. Mickey Mouse also wore spats on his tuxedo shoes in Mickey’s Delayed Date, & Fred Astaire wore spats with a suit & ascot in a 1936 movie with Ginger Rogers & in the movie in which he sang Puttin’ On The Ritz, & Jiminy Cricket also wore a top hat & spats, & Babar wore spats too.

    • @helenjourde9033
      @helenjourde9033 День назад

      I love old movies and photos where men are fully dressed with top hats and spats. Now that's STYLE!

  • @perpetualpunster
    @perpetualpunster 13 дней назад +5

    A lovely bit of top quality history. I was not aware the hat had tall tales about it's origin. I tip my hat to you and bid you have a good day.

  • @JamesDunn-sk2sj
    @JamesDunn-sk2sj 13 дней назад +5

    Leather top hats were popular in the U.S. Midwest and West. Some folklore claims that the 10 gallon hat was made by combining the sombrero with the top hat.

  • @GrinderCB
    @GrinderCB 12 дней назад +4

    In the film footage of the formal surrender aboard the USS Missouri that ended WWII, a few members of the Japanese entourage wore top hats. Emperor Hirohito himself wore his finest formal wear with a top hat when he went to meet with General MacArthur at the start of the occupation of Japan.

  • @Bill-cv1xu
    @Bill-cv1xu 13 дней назад +9

    Slash stole his Top hat,self admittedly 😮

  • @sirtorndr
    @sirtorndr 39 минут назад

    I'm so glad that Slash got a mention! I was mildly concerned that perhaps Slash was outside of The History Guy's purview, but that is not the case. Slash wearing that top hat was just about the coolest thing ever for many of us who were children of the 80's, and the History Guy was all over it. Great work!

  • @SandyRiverBlue
    @SandyRiverBlue 12 дней назад +3

    Some of the upper class boarding schools in England had or have a top hat as part of their school uniform. Eaton for example had the top hat as part of their uniforms until the 1970s and brought back as an optional part of their school kit in 2020.

  • @annaleabrown4588
    @annaleabrown4588 13 дней назад +5

    If anyone has ever met Townsends in person!!!! He's so tall and thin and that top hat he wears is spectacular!

  • @tomarmstrong4761
    @tomarmstrong4761 11 дней назад +1

    A friend wore a top hat and a coat with tails for his wedding. Because he could, of course. This was circa 1990. That friend passed away in 1993, sadly, of a congenital condition. I miss him and his wife. They were wonderful people.

  • @BiggestCorvid
    @BiggestCorvid 11 дней назад +3

    7:28 for a moment i thought the man on the left had an extreme Doug-Dimmedome-esque top hat 😂

    • @BiggestCorvid
      @BiggestCorvid 11 дней назад +1

      Just extending up and away, to the heavens...

  • @skyden24195
    @skyden24195 13 дней назад +10

    Japanese delegates wore top hats when signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on September 2, 1945.

    • @smythharris2635
      @smythharris2635 12 дней назад

      Fred and Ginger accepted their surrender

    • @skyden24195
      @skyden24195 11 дней назад

      @@smythharris2635 weren't they (Fred and Ginger) also at the Rydell High School National Bandstand dance?

  • @cb-kf6qx
    @cb-kf6qx 13 дней назад +2

    My two fav videos of yours, the campaign hat and this vid.

  • @johnfroneman1675
    @johnfroneman1675 10 дней назад +1

    As always, an excellent presentation. Thank you.

  • @omegapuschel
    @omegapuschel 13 дней назад +5

    It's clear that you are absolutely delighted at the end of the video. Seems like you had a great time making this video

  • @raztaz826
    @raztaz826 13 дней назад +7

    Also commonly seen in Planters Peanuts logo, The Penguin (Batman), St Patrick's day leprechauns, Jeeves & Wooster, Sir Topham Hat / The Fat controller (Thomas the Tank Engine).

    • @raztaz826
      @raztaz826 12 дней назад +1

      @@MickeyMousePark oops , ty

  • @fatboyrowing
    @fatboyrowing 12 дней назад +2

    Thank you for keeping me entertained and informed during my commute home today

  • @a11oge
    @a11oge 13 дней назад +3

    what a magical video - I raise my hat to you THG

  • @edwardparkhurst9804
    @edwardparkhurst9804 13 дней назад +3

    Always have time for history class video. Thanks for sharing this with us that watch your channel.

  • @kpolenz9772
    @kpolenz9772 12 дней назад +2

    8:07
    I like that they digitized the soldier in the background so nobody could dox him 160 years later.

    • @unfunk
      @unfunk 12 дней назад

      Came here for that. What is going on here?

  • @Afterglow.Studios
    @Afterglow.Studios 13 дней назад +7

    I tip my cap, sire 🎩

  • @kenheise162
    @kenheise162 13 дней назад +4

    The top hat is the hat of choice for magicians.

  • @QuantumRift
    @QuantumRift 11 дней назад

    Hats off to you, History Guy, for yet another great video!

  • @SteveMoser
    @SteveMoser 13 дней назад +3

    Entertaining as always, Lance.

  • @mariebelladonna437
    @mariebelladonna437 12 дней назад

    I very much did enjoy watching this episode. And I can tell you very much enjoyed making it! Thanks for another awesome lesson, Professor!

  • @HunterTopHatGuy
    @HunterTopHatGuy 3 дня назад

    I've been waiting a long time for this video

  • @DabblerDave
    @DabblerDave 11 дней назад +1

    One of many search hits, it is the one I had in mind:
    Where Did You Get That Hat?
    Joseph J. Sullivan
    Where Did You Get That Hat? Lyrics
    [Verse 1]
    Now how I came to get this hat 'tis very strange and funny
    Grandfather died and left to me his property and money
    And when the will it was read out they told me straight and flat
    If I would have his money I must always wear his hat
    [Chorus]
    Where did you get that hat?
    Where did you get that tile?
    Isn't it a nobby one and just the proper style?
    I should like to have one just the same as that
    Where e'er I go they shout: "Hello, where did you get that hat?"
    [Verse 2]
    If I go to the op'ra house, in the op'ra season
    There's someone sure to shout at me without the slightest reason
    If I go to a "chowder club" to have a jolly spree
    There's someone at the party who is sure to shout at me:
    [Chorus]
    Where did you get that hat?
    Where did you get that tile?
    Isn't it a nobby one and just the proper style?
    I should like to have one just the same as that
    Where e'er I go they shout: "Hello, where did you get that hat?"
    [Verse 3]
    At twenty-one I thought I would to my sweetheart be married
    The people in the neighborhood had said too long we'd tarried
    So off to church we went right quick determined to get wed
    I had not long been in there when the parson to me said:
    [Chorus]
    Where did you get that hat?
    Where did you get that tile?
    Isn't it a nobby one and just the proper style?
    I should like to have one just the same as that
    Where e'er I go they shout: "Hello, where did you get that hat?"
    Where did you get that hat?
    Where did you get that tile?
    Isn't it a nobby one and just the proper style?
    I should like to have one just the same as that
    Where e'er I go they shout: "Hello, where did you get that hat?"

  • @Sel-Shackfield
    @Sel-Shackfield 12 дней назад +1

    Hats off to you History Guy! It was indeed, a pleasure. 🎩

  • @vanessarayfox
    @vanessarayfox 9 дней назад

    Your channel is food for my brain - thank you for doing this!

  • @KevinJRogers
    @KevinJRogers 12 дней назад

    Great episode, Lance. I really enjoyed that. 👏

  • @LilYeshua
    @LilYeshua 13 дней назад +6

    Captain Picard in Star Trek TNG wore one in an episode

    • @zathrasnotzathras9435
      @zathrasnotzathras9435 12 дней назад +1

      A collapsible one too. Startled Worf a bit when he popped it open. Always loved that scene.

  • @marvinbush9330
    @marvinbush9330 11 дней назад +1

    What a thoroughly worthwhile topic. I truly enjoyed it.🎩🧢

  • @BasicDrumming
    @BasicDrumming 12 дней назад

    I appreciate you and thank you for making content.

  • @Gershwin48
    @Gershwin48 9 дней назад

    Like you, I too collect hats. I wonder who was under them. Many of my hats are military, but half the collection relate to professions such as Brakeman, fireman, driver, gas station attendant, pilot and sea merchant. The charm of the collection is that my grandkids see them and spend time paying me questions. Good show. 12:54 12:54

  • @isaacwilson5768
    @isaacwilson5768 13 дней назад +3

    7:40 I didn't realize Lincoln WASN'T wearing his top hat on the Penny! Though, it would take up like half of it, i bet we could easily mint a special Penny including this iconic piece of his history he wore.

  • @shawnr771
    @shawnr771 13 дней назад +2

    Thank you for the lesson.

  • @buzbuz33-99
    @buzbuz33-99 11 дней назад +1

    Soldiers were given tall hats to make them appear more imposing on the battlefield. So that is probably some of the psychology involved. Conversely, a top hat could be used to show that the person is "stately" - unlikely to break into a run. Or, as with the dandies, giving you a way of "standing out" from the crowd while pretending that you don't care. So many messages!

  • @kavemanthewoodbutcher
    @kavemanthewoodbutcher 16 часов назад

    That opera hat is awesome. Much love, Lance.

  • @pberg-NC
    @pberg-NC 13 дней назад +2

    Wow! What a great and informative video!

  • @stephengoad6886
    @stephengoad6886 12 дней назад +2

    There is definitely something about a top hat. It just looks the part. Wonderful.

  • @DocLaw172
    @DocLaw172 13 дней назад +3

    Having once been a police officer, I prided myself on my skills in observation. However, I am wincing now as I realize that I looked at Top Hats as all being of one style, when in fact, as you have shown, there are many. Frankly, now I would like to have one to go with my Tricorn.

    • @TheHistoryGuyChannel
      @TheHistoryGuyChannel  13 дней назад +1

      Drop by Lock and Company, St James’s Street, London. They’ll set you up!

    • @DocLaw172
      @DocLaw172 12 дней назад

      @@TheHistoryGuyChannel, but Sir, I am not Major Stovall visiting his old air base at Archbury. Also, no passport. Thank you for the thought, though.

    • @danielcobbins8861
      @danielcobbins8861 12 дней назад

      @@DocLaw172 Major Stovall was wearing a Homburg.

    • @DocLaw172
      @DocLaw172 12 дней назад

      @@danielcobbins8861 (SSssshhh, I know, I wanted to see if the History Guy caught that )

  • @Columbushops
    @Columbushops 7 дней назад +1

    I really like your work. The Top hat history is cool.
    The history of where the top hat material came from would be cool.
    It’s what drove the Hudson Bay company to the NW. in search of the beaver that made the best Top hats!
    Thanks for all you do.

  • @timrodriguez1
    @timrodriguez1 12 дней назад +1

    I enjoy the content. Thank you! 🤘🤠

  • @earllutz2663
    @earllutz2663 8 дней назад

    Thank you very much THG for your explanation of the Top Hat. It was informative and interesting.

  • @FredrickLeicht
    @FredrickLeicht 2 дня назад

    Totally cool. I'm glad I am not the only one who loves hats. Growing up my Dad's work had him to traveling a lot, I did not want him to go so he made me a deal every place he went he would bring back a hat that pretty much summed the place where he had been. For example a three cornered hat from Boston a St Louis Carnivals baseball hat from St Louis and so on. So over the years I have managed quite a collection and in fact in the last few years I have expanded my hat collection to included movies I liked companies I thought (at least at the time) where cool.

  • @amcupojoe
    @amcupojoe 12 дней назад +1

    Great job!!! The ending was great.

  • @Doin_the_best_I_can
    @Doin_the_best_I_can 9 дней назад

    More hat episodes, please. I love hats. My parents had many hats. Hats make me sentimental.

  • @v.e.7236
    @v.e.7236 12 дней назад +1

    I'm a fan of the Cabbie cap, as its not so ostentatious as the top hat but has a rakish style I like. Have about a doen variations. Hats off to THG.

  • @jerryclyde1
    @jerryclyde1 9 дней назад +2

    7 1/8 is a surprisingly small hat size for such a tall man like Lincoln.

  • @kevinsullivan3448
    @kevinsullivan3448 12 дней назад +2

    Saloon cars and cabs had tall passenger cabins so that men didn't have to remove their top hats while riding.

  • @ThinWhiteAxe
    @ThinWhiteAxe 13 дней назад +2

    I have a couple top hats because I love the Marlene Dietrich look, but they're night impossible to incorporate into everyday wear. For a daily hat, i like a flat cap.

    • @TheHistoryGuyChannel
      @TheHistoryGuyChannel  13 дней назад

      If you wore one on the street today women might faint.

    • @j_taylor
      @j_taylor 12 дней назад

      I've been wearing my top hat with a black overcoat around town. It's a bit of fun, hopefully for everyone.

  • @Ivehadenuff
    @Ivehadenuff 10 дней назад

    Great episode!

  • @amadeusamwater
    @amadeusamwater 12 дней назад +2

    Hats off to THG....especially top hats....

  • @carny666
    @carny666 8 дней назад

    Excellent one. Thanks!!

  • @DutchSchultz8
    @DutchSchultz8 10 дней назад

    The Bowery boys have the perfect mix of toughness and style. Towering over people with the tall hat. Loved gangs of New York. Bill the butcher in his bloody apron and top hat, a menacing site.

  • @danielgbgibson
    @danielgbgibson 11 дней назад

    “Top Hat” is unironically a fantastic movie.

  • @sirguy6678
    @sirguy6678 12 дней назад +1

    Excellent video! Happy Birthday to the Top Hat!

  • @user-hf2ut2jk5y
    @user-hf2ut2jk5y 12 дней назад

    Looking good HG! Very dapper

  • @aaronchristman6627
    @aaronchristman6627 13 дней назад +1

    I enjoy your videos thank you!

  • @tracymcdonald6543
    @tracymcdonald6543 12 дней назад +2

    Satirical news piece. Great fun. Thx

  • @bigjay875
    @bigjay875 13 дней назад +5

    Hard to believe that people of that time were so simple as to be wiped up to rioting over a hat!

    • @Albeetrosss
      @Albeetrosss 13 дней назад +2

      It kinda reminds me of how some schools act about kids wearing hats in class. They say it's a distraction but usually no one cares or notices until the teacher makes a big deal about it as if the kid is in a gang and is going to incite violence

    • @halo7oo
      @halo7oo 13 дней назад +1

      They weren't, it was a fake story made 100 years later.

    • @speedgriffon2504
      @speedgriffon2504 13 дней назад +2

      @@Albeetrosss Incorrect. As Slash admitted in the video, hats are convenient for "hiding behind", in addition to being a visual impediment for other students. There's no reason to wear them in a classroom.

  • @phillycardshark9257
    @phillycardshark9257 13 дней назад +1

    Excellent informative video...
    Thankyou.

  • @MockingBirdJoy
    @MockingBirdJoy 11 дней назад

    This was a fun video. As an exchange student to Great Britain many years ago, I took the train to Richmond (of which Richmond, VA is named after) to a haberdasher and purchased an iconic "Bowler" from Dunn and Co.

  • @madmaxington
    @madmaxington 12 дней назад

    Love some hat content. Great stuff as usual.

  • @Penekamp11
    @Penekamp11 13 дней назад +3

    I can assure you as someone who has been to the Kentucky Derby 14 or 15 times that the top hat is not the hat of choice for that event. Instead I would say that the Panama hat is worn much more often. In fact I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone wear a top hat at the Derby

    • @TheHistoryGuyChannel
      @TheHistoryGuyChannel  13 дней назад +2

      I think that skimmers and derby’s are also common. But there are plenty of photos of top hats at the derby, both classic and adorned.

    • @Penekamp11
      @Penekamp11 13 дней назад +2

      @ I agree that the top hat WAS very common back in the day. Currently, as I stated, the Panama hat is seen and yes the skimmer as well. The derby not so much. The derby would have been of the era of the top hat. Now it is seen on the occasional man in some wild derby costume and there are plenty of those.

  • @willa2365
    @willa2365 12 дней назад

    Hats off to you. Good video.

  • @DelfinoGarza77
    @DelfinoGarza77 12 дней назад +1

    I started collecting hats because of the history guy. I love this show.