THE HOMBURG HAT
The reappearance of the tall hat in London has been duly chronicled. It is not a new tall hat, but a more or less worn article that went into internment towards the close of 19M. In the absence of the silk hat, the Homburg hat has' obtained almost complete domination as a covering for tho hond of such London men as do not affect cloth caps. In a district railway coach recently thirty-two passengers ' wore Ilomburgs, one a silk hat, two had bowlers, and there was one cloth cap. The cloak ■room of a London club showed four silk hats, fifty Ilomburgs, half a dozen bowlers, and a hat of straw. As the Homburg has come to gtay its name must be changed. [A Homburg hat is, a soft felt, with a Bent in the crown, and a raking cuirve to the brim.l
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 142, 11 March 1919, Page 6
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146THE HOMBURG HAT Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 142, 11 March 1919, Page 6
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