Hats of Jerusalem

'Perhaps if people wore hats, everything would be better, like it used to be, when everything was simpler, when everyone owned a hat.' Nothing was ever simple about the role of the hat among Jews or anyone else, as this extraordinary series of videos reveals.

Hat-Pins

An important accessory in the Victorian era, pins were used to secure those large hats in place. The Society of Great Britain has some useful information, as does the American Hatpin Society. Google images and Flickr have some good photos.

The Hat Site

The Hat Site is another trade site, but with quite a few useful links, including Books on Hats, hat care, sizing, etc.

YAKKAY

Heidi recommends the YAKKAY helmet cover, a great idea for customizing boring headgear.

Hats in the News

MSM looks at the renewed interest in hats.

The Haberdasher's Guild

The wonderful HJ in Brussels captured this image from the Maison du Renard, the house of the haberdasher's guild.

Cap In Hand

From the custom of uncovering the head (abridged to ‘raising’ or merely ‘touching’ the cap) in sign of reverence, respect, or courtesy, come many expressions, such as to come with cap in hand, also cap-in-hand, attrib. phr., with cap and knee, bareheaded and bowing or kneeling, with cap and courtship, or cap and curtsey; and also the contextual use of cap, for the raising of the cap, respectful salute.

1600 HOLLAND Livy IX. xx. 328 They..importuned them..with cap and cursie.

1889 C. M. YONGE in Monthly Packet Xmas 33, I don't care for those cap-in-hand ways of your people here. OED