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“With these good-looking caps, you keep your ears warm and your head, too” he pointed out.

Headwear seasons used to be dictated by strict etiquette. A gala affair in mid-September marked the time when socially correct New Yorkers stored summer straw hats and dusted off their felt fedoras.

According to Emily Post in 1930: “Gentlemen leave their coats, hats, sticks, in the hall; ladies leave heavy outer wraps in the hall, or dressingroom, but always go into the drawing-room with their hats and gloves on. They wear their fur neck pieces and carry their muffc in their hands...But fashionable ladies never take off their hats.”

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