
He worked at the Hotel Flamingo in Las Vegas as a comedian to many happy crowds. Tommy Cooper is well remembered for his red fez hat and his many magic tricks. Tom Mix, a successful actor was famous for wearing a certain type of cowboy hat.Nowadays, beanies are usually made of a soft fleece. Schoolboys often clipped pins and buttons to their beanies. Sometimes these beanies had a small visor also, but usually they had no visor. Of course the beanie is the skull cap that often had a propeller on top! This hat, or cap was usually made of wool or felt and was worn by school boys from the 1920s to the 1940s. A fez is a traditional had worn by the Shriners and is well known as being a type of hat from Morocco. Charlie McCarthy, who you may know as being a ventriloquist's dummy, always wore a silk top-hat.Ī beret is a round, flat, brimless, woolen cap. Abraham Lincoln wore a version of top-hat called a stovepipe hat.

Nowadays the hat is made of silk but once was made of felt when it was first produced. This formal style of hat was also called a gentleman's cap. Which hat am I referring to?Ī top hat is shaped like a cylinder or something like a stove pipe. They played the part of northern Canadian brothers, sporting this type of hat, along with earmuffs.

SCTV ran a skit with Bob and Doug MacKenzie called "The Great White North".

The felt is then hardened and rounded in the crown area. The bowler hat can also be known as a billycock and as a derby. It was actually created to protect a horseback rider's head from low branches of trees, but the style of hat became a popular item.

The Andrews Sisters are the original singers of the song "Johnnie Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet". The characters are from the classic 1946 Disney cartoon named "Johnnie Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet". Johnnie Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet are a very different pair of hats that meet in the window of a department store.
