Big Hat Craze.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 July 1910, Page 4

Big Hat Craze.

Tho crazo for large hate is nob a new thing. In England in the eighteenth century, women revelled in 'liatsso big that they caused groat inconvenience. Samuel Rogers onco travelled to Ranolagh in the same coach with a woman wlio was compelled to sit on a sltool on the floor of the eoaah, so high and so broad was her hat. Hannah More writes in her diary that she had scon women wearing on their heads "an acre of shrubbery, besides slopes, grass plots,, tulip beds, clumps of peonies, kite-hen gardens fl-nd green-ihouses." The credit of killiiiig this faslition is given to Garrick. Ho ifiippearocl one night on the stage with a mass of vegetables on his head and ,a carrot suspended from oacli side, to th© shame and confusion of many fair members «f his audience.