Imagine being some old guy in a tricorn hat. Then some young dude in a top hat comes up and you think to yourself, geez I hate these insufferable hipsters.
@@Mopartoolman I’m working out with my ball cap on backwards right now. I’m so sorry. He keeps the hair and sweat out of my eyes. And then when it’s sunny out, I turn it around.
@ I actually can for real. I literally sound so much like my father. He passed away sometime ago, but when I hear my own voice I can’t help but think of them. It’s kind of uncanny.
My husband, who lived to be 86, always loved hats, caps, etc, and he had an extensive collection. After he died, I made a remembrance tree filled with ornaments that were photographs of him wearing different hats down through the years - from a small boy to the end of his life. There are 55 ornaments on the tree, and each ornament is of him wearing a different hat. I regret that I didn’t make it for him when he was alive. He would have loved it. 🎩 🧢
You made the most appropriate thing that represented his personality and life. A most fitting memorial and a true honor to the man you love. No one could ask for anything more.
When I was a kid my parents hired a chimney sweep, and he arrived in a suit and top hat. He was great fun, and seemed to really love his job. He was also fully appreciative of the archaic-seeming nature of it and really leaned into it.
When living in Germany I was surprised German chimney sweeps dressed in the blue tunics with big brass buttons we Americans associate with Union Civil War uniforms. They explained to me the German Army wore a similar uniform during the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. German veterans from that war fell into chimney sweeping as a profession and their old uniforms became the profession’s national uniform in Germany. And remains so today.
Eisenhower was actually the first president to dispense with formal dress at presidential inaugurations. In 1953 he opted for ordinary business dress over the traditional morning suit (striped pants, winged collar and claw-hammer coat with a top hat). This caused some controversy at the time, but at his 1957 inaugural, no one seems to have thought much about it. Unlike Kennedy, Ike did actually wear a hat most of the time. He wore a homburg to both of his swearing in ceremonies.
@@edwardloomis887 Ike was in his sixties when became president and had lived his entire life in a world where almost all men, including civilians, wore hats. The 1950s was probably the last decade where most men still wore a hat when out of doors.
Kennedy did wear a morning coat ensemble, but he carried his top hat at the Inauguration. Like he was tipping his hat to everyone at the parade. There had been a snowstorm the night before. The Army and others cleared the streets so the citizens could attend the event. It was cold!
Lance, I finally realized why I enjoy your channel so much, your story telling does great credit to that of the late great Paul Harvey’s. Listening to him on AM radio, as my mother took me to school in the morning, was the best way to start the day and was certainly the impetus for my passion about history. Thank you for another great lesson, I greatly appreciate you.
Some biographers report that Lincoln also used his top hat as a sort of brief case. Legal briefs, letters and other documents fit neatly within his top hat.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannelBoston Corbett had been exposed to mercuric oxide as a hatter, which may account for his strange behavior, conversion, self-loathing over lust, self-mutilation castration, reputation among his peers in the Union Army, his shooting John Wilkes Booth, and later reclusion.
Slash explained on a mid 2000's episode of UK Topgear, that he actually Stole his iconic hat from a thrift store! Perhaps innocently, but he explained he put it on in the shop, just kept wearing while browsing, and simply... walked out wearing it. The world has known Slash's silhouette ever since.
I would like to tell you as someone who in his earlier life worked at concert venues in Detroit, I have seen slash perform a half dozen times and can assure you I have never heard nothing but kind words from any coworkers who have had to work for or interact with him. Just a solid dude.
@@nedludd7622Top gear is the highest gear in a car's transmission, the original 1977 consumer TV programme was named after it, to evoque a positive image of motoring. The 2001 Jeremy Clarkson revival turned into more of an entertainment show with wide appreciation - not universal, as you show. That should answer your question. I'm interested, what kind of programmes do you like? Maybe we can get to the bottom of your passionate distaste that makes you go off topic.
I once saw a drawing of how the cabin of a Critroen 2CV was designed. Four top-hatted men placed close together on ordinary dining room chairs And then you see the soft curved lines of a 2CV seen from the side and voilà the smooth 2CV was created. Nice lecture and nice to have new hat stories back on the program. By the way, in Europe the hat is called "a Cylinder"👍👍👍
I do agree that whatever hat a man is wearing, you can tell the time a photo was taken. I do also collect men's hats, and Military covers. To add, the stovepipe hat that Lincoln wore to Ford's Theater is on display at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC. I recall it was on display.
I hate wearing hates, except maybe a cap if I need too.... but I too have a collection of hats including a 1916 German helmet, an extremely big sombrero, my grandfathers bowling club hat, my great-grandfathers ship's captain cap and a heap of other ones not counting several bags full of caps.
Thank you for this video. My father just passed away; he was a great fan of Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Billy Benedict, and David Gorcey, collectively known in their many films as The Bowery Boys. My Dad introduced me to them 10 years ago and whenever I saw one of their movies, we'd talk for hours about it. I'm disabled and haven't been able to go home to be with family since before Dad passed; learning about the real Bowery Boys brought Dad to be with me for a while. That's worth remembering the History of the Top Hat for me
6:15 that poor short king. He got a tall top hat so he wouldn't stand out for being short but then everyone else got one and he found himself in the exact same predicement.
According to my research, the white tie & tails is still the dress code for events like the Nobel Prizes, state dinners in Britain, the Mardi Gras masked ball in New Orleans, but after the counterculture of the 1960s, the black tie tuxedo became the most frequent outfit for formal events. Count Von Count’s white tie attire was inspired by Bela Lugosi’s portrayal of Dracula, & Fred Astaire was another master of the white tie & tails. Mickey Mouse wore a top hat with his white tie & tails in the 1947 Disney cartoon Mickey’s Delayed Date.
@@jimislaughterback6280 Trump is not boring. AI is not boring. Catching a rocket in mid flight is not boring. You’re living in history and like many before you, you don’t even realize it.
@@VespasianJudea, based on the first two things you listed, I would really LOVE some 'boring'. Two things that may be the harbingers of the end of civilization.
it's not every day that i make a plate of pasta and immediately find a good video to watch while eating it, but today is one such day! huzzah, bravo history guy!
5:01 *In the 19th century it was usual for fire departments to be comprised of volunteers. These groups got paid for putting out fires and multiple groups would rush to the scene to be the first and therefore the ones that got paid. This lead to many incidents of fisticuffs, battling to see who would get the plum prize while the building burned down! I think I may recall on the scene to this effect in the film Gangs of New York*
Scrooge McDuck also wore spats, which have long been associated with wealth. Count Von Count usually wears spats on his tuxedo shoes, & so does Count Chocula. Mickey Mouse also wore spats on his tuxedo shoes in Mickey’s Delayed Date, & Fred Astaire wore spats with a suit & ascot in a 1936 movie with Ginger Rogers & in the movie in which he sang Puttin’ On The Ritz, & Jiminy Cricket also wore a top hat & spats, & Babar wore spats too.
Leather top hats were popular in the U.S. Midwest and West. Some folklore claims that the 10 gallon hat was made by combining the sombrero with the top hat.
In the film footage of the formal surrender aboard the USS Missouri that ended WWII, a few members of the Japanese entourage wore top hats. Emperor Hirohito himself wore his finest formal wear with a top hat when he went to meet with General MacArthur at the start of the occupation of Japan.
I'm so glad that Slash got a mention! I was mildly concerned that perhaps Slash was outside of The History Guy's purview, but that is not the case. Slash wearing that top hat was just about the coolest thing ever for many of us who were children of the 80's, and the History Guy was all over it. Great work!
Some of the upper class boarding schools in England had or have a top hat as part of their school uniform. Eaton for example had the top hat as part of their uniforms until the 1970s and brought back as an optional part of their school kit in 2020.
A friend wore a top hat and a coat with tails for his wedding. Because he could, of course. This was circa 1990. That friend passed away in 1993, sadly, of a congenital condition. I miss him and his wife. They were wonderful people.
Also commonly seen in Planters Peanuts logo, The Penguin (Batman), St Patrick's day leprechauns, Jeeves & Wooster, Sir Topham Hat / The Fat controller (Thomas the Tank Engine).
One of many search hits, it is the one I had in mind: Where Did You Get That Hat? Joseph J. Sullivan Where Did You Get That Hat? Lyrics [Verse 1] Now how I came to get this hat 'tis very strange and funny Grandfather died and left to me his property and money And when the will it was read out they told me straight and flat If I would have his money I must always wear his hat [Chorus] Where did you get that hat? Where did you get that tile? Isn't it a nobby one and just the proper style? I should like to have one just the same as that Where e'er I go they shout: "Hello, where did you get that hat?" [Verse 2] If I go to the op'ra house, in the op'ra season There's someone sure to shout at me without the slightest reason If I go to a "chowder club" to have a jolly spree There's someone at the party who is sure to shout at me: [Chorus] Where did you get that hat? Where did you get that tile? Isn't it a nobby one and just the proper style? I should like to have one just the same as that Where e'er I go they shout: "Hello, where did you get that hat?" [Verse 3] At twenty-one I thought I would to my sweetheart be married The people in the neighborhood had said too long we'd tarried So off to church we went right quick determined to get wed I had not long been in there when the parson to me said: [Chorus] Where did you get that hat? Where did you get that tile? Isn't it a nobby one and just the proper style? I should like to have one just the same as that Where e'er I go they shout: "Hello, where did you get that hat?" Where did you get that hat? Where did you get that tile? Isn't it a nobby one and just the proper style? I should like to have one just the same as that Where e'er I go they shout: "Hello, where did you get that hat?"
Like you, I too collect hats. I wonder who was under them. Many of my hats are military, but half the collection relate to professions such as Brakeman, fireman, driver, gas station attendant, pilot and sea merchant. The charm of the collection is that my grandkids see them and spend time paying me questions. Good show. 12:5412:54
7:40 I didn't realize Lincoln WASN'T wearing his top hat on the Penny! Though, it would take up like half of it, i bet we could easily mint a special Penny including this iconic piece of his history he wore.
Soldiers were given tall hats to make them appear more imposing on the battlefield. So that is probably some of the psychology involved. Conversely, a top hat could be used to show that the person is "stately" - unlikely to break into a run. Or, as with the dandies, giving you a way of "standing out" from the crowd while pretending that you don't care. So many messages!
Having once been a police officer, I prided myself on my skills in observation. However, I am wincing now as I realize that I looked at Top Hats as all being of one style, when in fact, as you have shown, there are many. Frankly, now I would like to have one to go with my Tricorn.
I really like your work. The Top hat history is cool. The history of where the top hat material came from would be cool. It’s what drove the Hudson Bay company to the NW. in search of the beaver that made the best Top hats! Thanks for all you do.
Totally cool. I'm glad I am not the only one who loves hats. Growing up my Dad's work had him to traveling a lot, I did not want him to go so he made me a deal every place he went he would bring back a hat that pretty much summed the place where he had been. For example a three cornered hat from Boston a St Louis Carnivals baseball hat from St Louis and so on. So over the years I have managed quite a collection and in fact in the last few years I have expanded my hat collection to included movies I liked companies I thought (at least at the time) where cool.
I have a couple top hats because I love the Marlene Dietrich look, but they're night impossible to incorporate into everyday wear. For a daily hat, i like a flat cap.
The Bowery boys have the perfect mix of toughness and style. Towering over people with the tall hat. Loved gangs of New York. Bill the butcher in his bloody apron and top hat, a menacing site.
It kinda reminds me of how some schools act about kids wearing hats in class. They say it's a distraction but usually no one cares or notices until the teacher makes a big deal about it as if the kid is in a gang and is going to incite violence
@@Albeetrosss Incorrect. As Slash admitted in the video, hats are convenient for "hiding behind", in addition to being a visual impediment for other students. There's no reason to wear them in a classroom.
This was a fun video. As an exchange student to Great Britain many years ago, I took the train to Richmond (of which Richmond, VA is named after) to a haberdasher and purchased an iconic "Bowler" from Dunn and Co.
I can assure you as someone who has been to the Kentucky Derby 14 or 15 times that the top hat is not the hat of choice for that event. Instead I would say that the Panama hat is worn much more often. In fact I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone wear a top hat at the Derby
@ I agree that the top hat WAS very common back in the day. Currently, as I stated, the Panama hat is seen and yes the skimmer as well. The derby not so much. The derby would have been of the era of the top hat. Now it is seen on the occasional man in some wild derby costume and there are plenty of those.
Imagine being some old guy in a tricorn hat. Then some young dude in a top hat comes up and you think to yourself, geez I hate these insufferable hipsters.
I chuckled out loud at that!
That's how I feel when I see some guy with his hat on backwards!!!!!!!!!!!!😁😁😁
@@Mopartoolman I’m working out with my ball cap on backwards right now. I’m so sorry. He keeps the hair and sweat out of my eyes. And then when it’s sunny out, I turn it around.
Can you guys remember the day you started sounding like your own parents?
@ I actually can for real. I literally sound so much like my father. He passed away sometime ago, but when I hear my own voice I can’t help but think of them. It’s kind of uncanny.
My husband, who lived to be 86, always loved hats, caps, etc, and he had an extensive collection. After he died, I made a remembrance tree filled with ornaments that were photographs of him wearing different hats down through the years - from a small boy to the end of his life.
There are 55 ornaments on the tree, and each ornament is of him wearing a different hat. I regret that I didn’t make it for him when he was alive. He would have loved it. 🎩 🧢
bless your heart maam
You sound like someone who truly loved the ones he loved and that makes me smile. Did he have a top hat?
You made the most appropriate thing that represented his personality and life. A most fitting memorial and a true honor to the man you love. No one could ask for anything more.
Have to say it, you actually really rock a top hat.
And bow tie!
Hats off to you History Guy for making such a good video on this topic !
You mean "hats on"...
I must add that nobody looks better than him in a top hat 12:26 🎩
When I was a kid my parents hired a chimney sweep, and he arrived in a suit and top hat. He was great fun, and seemed to really love his job. He was also fully appreciative of the archaic-seeming nature of it and really leaned into it.
I knew a guy in St. Louis,Mo. that did that in the 80's.
When living in Germany I was surprised German chimney sweeps dressed in the blue tunics with big brass buttons we Americans associate with Union Civil War uniforms. They explained to me the German Army wore a similar uniform during the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. German veterans from that war fell into chimney sweeping as a profession and their old uniforms became the profession’s national uniform in Germany. And remains so today.
Eisenhower was actually the first president to dispense with formal dress at presidential inaugurations. In 1953 he opted for ordinary business dress over the traditional morning suit (striped pants, winged collar and claw-hammer coat with a top hat). This caused some controversy at the time, but at his 1957 inaugural, no one seems to have thought much about it. Unlike Kennedy, Ike did actually wear a hat most of the time. He wore a homburg to both of his swearing in ceremonies.
Eisenhower got used to wearing hats during a career in the Army where you can't go outside without one unless you're on a flightline or in a helmet.
@@edwardloomis887 Ike was in his sixties when became president and had lived his entire life in a world where almost all men, including civilians, wore hats. The 1950s was probably the last decade where most men still wore a hat when out of doors.
Are you sure? I looked at pictures from his first inauguration. It looks like he and Vice President Nixon are wearing morning dress.
Mason's still use top hats in many places
Kennedy did wear a morning coat ensemble, but he carried his top hat at the Inauguration. Like he was tipping his hat to everyone at the parade. There had been a snowstorm the night before. The Army and others cleared the streets so the citizens could attend the event. It was cold!
THG looks outstanding in a top hat! Well done sir.
Lance, I finally realized why I enjoy your channel so much, your story telling does great credit to that of the late great Paul Harvey’s. Listening to him on AM radio, as my mother took me to school in the morning, was the best way to start the day and was certainly the impetus for my passion about history. Thank you for another great lesson, I greatly appreciate you.
Some biographers report that Lincoln also used his top hat as a sort of brief case. Legal briefs, letters and other documents fit neatly within his top hat.
Yes, he carried documents in the lining of his hat.
The original post it.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannelBoston Corbett had been exposed to mercuric oxide as a hatter, which may account for his strange behavior, conversion, self-loathing over lust, self-mutilation castration, reputation among his peers in the Union Army, his shooting John Wilkes Booth, and later reclusion.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannelAw, you didn’t mention Batman’s classic foe, the Penguin! Promise if you ever do a story on umbrellas, you won’t forget him.
Thanks for your efforts. So much fun, every time!!
Looks great with the tuxedo! My hat of choice for a man, however, is the classic fedora of the 30's through '50s. 😊
I wear a fedora daily. Often to much criticism since I am from Texas. I tell people, I am not a cowboy and therefore do not their hat lol
Ironic that it was named after a woman.
maryd9331… AGREED !!! (About tuxedos & top hats)…
And a well shaped fedora … just like my grandpa used to always wear …
I wear fedoras all the time too.
Slash explained on a mid 2000's episode of UK Topgear, that he actually Stole his iconic hat from a thrift store!
Perhaps innocently, but he explained he put it on in the shop, just kept wearing while browsing, and simply... walked out wearing it.
The world has known Slash's silhouette ever since.
I would like to tell you as someone who in his earlier life worked at concert venues in Detroit, I have seen slash perform a half dozen times and can assure you I have never heard nothing but kind words from any coworkers who have had to work for or interact with him. Just a solid dude.
Why did anyone appear on Top Gear? It was so far from top tier, more like trailer trash.
@@nedludd7622Top gear is the highest gear in a car's transmission, the original 1977 consumer TV programme was named after it, to evoque a positive image of motoring.
The 2001 Jeremy Clarkson revival turned into more of an entertainment show with wide appreciation - not universal, as you show.
That should answer your question. I'm interested, what kind of programmes do you like? Maybe we can get to the bottom of your passionate distaste that makes you go off topic.
@@nedludd7622 350 million viewers per week would disagree.
I once saw a drawing of how the cabin of a Critroen 2CV was designed. Four top-hatted men placed close together on ordinary dining room chairs And then you see the soft curved lines of a 2CV seen from the side and voilà the smooth 2CV was created. Nice lecture and nice to have new hat stories back on the program.
By the way, in Europe the hat is called "a Cylinder"👍👍👍
Very interesting episode. If I still worked I would consider wearing one to the office! Every engineer should have one.
I do agree that whatever hat a man is wearing, you can tell the time a photo was taken. I do also collect men's hats, and Military covers.
To add, the stovepipe hat that Lincoln wore to Ford's Theater is on display at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC. I recall it was on display.
I heard Lincoln's wife complained that Lincoln used his hat as a writing desk.
Today is my birthday too! Although I'm not as old as the top hat, I'm getting up there! A video just in time for my birthday, I consider that a gift 😁
I hate wearing hates, except maybe a cap if I need too.... but I too have a collection of hats including a 1916 German helmet, an extremely big sombrero, my grandfathers bowling club hat, my great-grandfathers ship's captain cap and a heap of other ones not counting several bags full of caps.
0:26 dashing!
Thank you for this video. My father just passed away; he was a great fan of Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Billy Benedict, and David Gorcey, collectively known in their many films as The Bowery Boys. My Dad introduced me to them 10 years ago and whenever I saw one of their movies, we'd talk for hours about it. I'm disabled and haven't been able to go home to be with family since before Dad passed; learning about the real Bowery Boys brought Dad to be with me for a while. That's worth remembering the History of the Top Hat for me
6:15 that poor short king. He got a tall top hat so he wouldn't stand out for being short but then everyone else got one and he found himself in the exact same predicement.
As a bald man the utilizes a variety of hats every day, depending on the occasion, I appreciate your collection and this episode, thank you!!
Hello from another bald man. I have a growing hat collection too!
Hats off to you, History Guy, for this stylishly interesting video!
You covered this one ! Great job!
Amazing historical research…. I applaud, you sir in your content and delivery.
I had to smile watching this. The most fun you have offered on a long time. Thank you. ❤
According to my research, the white tie & tails is still the dress code for events like the Nobel Prizes, state dinners in Britain, the Mardi Gras masked ball in New Orleans, but after the counterculture of the 1960s, the black tie tuxedo became the most frequent outfit for formal events. Count Von Count’s white tie attire was inspired by Bela Lugosi’s portrayal of Dracula, & Fred Astaire was another master of the white tie & tails. Mickey Mouse wore a top hat with his white tie & tails in the 1947 Disney cartoon Mickey’s Delayed Date.
We live in the era of the baseball cap. It would be worth an episode looking into how it has become so ubiquitous and for decades now.
Probably they were cheap and easy to make? Also the proliferation of baseball in the 1930s/great depression.
We live in the era of lots of boring stuff. That's why history is so interesting.
@@jimislaughterback6280
Trump is not boring. AI is not boring. Catching a rocket in mid flight is not boring. You’re living in history and like many before you, you don’t even realize it.
@@VespasianJudea, based on the first two things you listed, I would really LOVE some 'boring'.
Two things that may be the harbingers of the end of civilization.
@@cynicallydepressed1 I love Trump. Then again I’m not communist garbage.
"Success loves the fearless-embrace your courage."
I always thought it caught on because magicians were the rockstars of the era.
it's not every day that i make a plate of pasta and immediately find a good video to watch while eating it, but today is one such day! huzzah, bravo history guy!
Since most of these were worn by people of means, the working classes often referred to the upper classes as "toppers."
You got me with the opera hat. I've never been trolled with such style and panache. Touche!
This was so interesting! Thanks! And I loved the ending when you showed your hat and how it flattens!
5:01 *In the 19th century it was usual for fire departments to be comprised of volunteers. These groups got paid for putting out fires and multiple groups would rush to the scene to be the first and therefore the ones that got paid. This lead to many incidents of fisticuffs, battling to see who would get the plum prize while the building burned down! I think I may recall on the scene to this effect in the film Gangs of New York*
THG has an episode on that very topic.
th-cam.com/video/9yAK2zRiGAQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=sQex1-bGh6OjBCm3
@@JarrodFrates I had forgotten. I first read about it about 20 years ago when I was given a gift of a book about the history of FDNY
Scrooge McDuck also wore spats, which have long been associated with wealth. Count Von Count usually wears spats on his tuxedo shoes, & so does Count Chocula. Mickey Mouse also wore spats on his tuxedo shoes in Mickey’s Delayed Date, & Fred Astaire wore spats with a suit & ascot in a 1936 movie with Ginger Rogers & in the movie in which he sang Puttin’ On The Ritz, & Jiminy Cricket also wore a top hat & spats, & Babar wore spats too.
I love old movies and photos where men are fully dressed with top hats and spats. Now that's STYLE!
A lovely bit of top quality history. I was not aware the hat had tall tales about it's origin. I tip my hat to you and bid you have a good day.
Leather top hats were popular in the U.S. Midwest and West. Some folklore claims that the 10 gallon hat was made by combining the sombrero with the top hat.
In the film footage of the formal surrender aboard the USS Missouri that ended WWII, a few members of the Japanese entourage wore top hats. Emperor Hirohito himself wore his finest formal wear with a top hat when he went to meet with General MacArthur at the start of the occupation of Japan.
Slash stole his Top hat,self admittedly 😮
I'm so glad that Slash got a mention! I was mildly concerned that perhaps Slash was outside of The History Guy's purview, but that is not the case. Slash wearing that top hat was just about the coolest thing ever for many of us who were children of the 80's, and the History Guy was all over it. Great work!
Some of the upper class boarding schools in England had or have a top hat as part of their school uniform. Eaton for example had the top hat as part of their uniforms until the 1970s and brought back as an optional part of their school kit in 2020.
If anyone has ever met Townsends in person!!!! He's so tall and thin and that top hat he wears is spectacular!
A friend wore a top hat and a coat with tails for his wedding. Because he could, of course. This was circa 1990. That friend passed away in 1993, sadly, of a congenital condition. I miss him and his wife. They were wonderful people.
7:28 for a moment i thought the man on the left had an extreme Doug-Dimmedome-esque top hat 😂
Just extending up and away, to the heavens...
Japanese delegates wore top hats when signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on September 2, 1945.
Fred and Ginger accepted their surrender
@@smythharris2635 weren't they (Fred and Ginger) also at the Rydell High School National Bandstand dance?
My two fav videos of yours, the campaign hat and this vid.
As always, an excellent presentation. Thank you.
It's clear that you are absolutely delighted at the end of the video. Seems like you had a great time making this video
Also commonly seen in Planters Peanuts logo, The Penguin (Batman), St Patrick's day leprechauns, Jeeves & Wooster, Sir Topham Hat / The Fat controller (Thomas the Tank Engine).
@@MickeyMousePark oops , ty
Thank you for keeping me entertained and informed during my commute home today
what a magical video - I raise my hat to you THG
Always have time for history class video. Thanks for sharing this with us that watch your channel.
8:07
I like that they digitized the soldier in the background so nobody could dox him 160 years later.
Came here for that. What is going on here?
I tip my cap, sire 🎩
The top hat is the hat of choice for magicians.
Hats off to you, History Guy, for yet another great video!
Entertaining as always, Lance.
I very much did enjoy watching this episode. And I can tell you very much enjoyed making it! Thanks for another awesome lesson, Professor!
I've been waiting a long time for this video
One of many search hits, it is the one I had in mind:
Where Did You Get That Hat?
Joseph J. Sullivan
Where Did You Get That Hat? Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Now how I came to get this hat 'tis very strange and funny
Grandfather died and left to me his property and money
And when the will it was read out they told me straight and flat
If I would have his money I must always wear his hat
[Chorus]
Where did you get that hat?
Where did you get that tile?
Isn't it a nobby one and just the proper style?
I should like to have one just the same as that
Where e'er I go they shout: "Hello, where did you get that hat?"
[Verse 2]
If I go to the op'ra house, in the op'ra season
There's someone sure to shout at me without the slightest reason
If I go to a "chowder club" to have a jolly spree
There's someone at the party who is sure to shout at me:
[Chorus]
Where did you get that hat?
Where did you get that tile?
Isn't it a nobby one and just the proper style?
I should like to have one just the same as that
Where e'er I go they shout: "Hello, where did you get that hat?"
[Verse 3]
At twenty-one I thought I would to my sweetheart be married
The people in the neighborhood had said too long we'd tarried
So off to church we went right quick determined to get wed
I had not long been in there when the parson to me said:
[Chorus]
Where did you get that hat?
Where did you get that tile?
Isn't it a nobby one and just the proper style?
I should like to have one just the same as that
Where e'er I go they shout: "Hello, where did you get that hat?"
Where did you get that hat?
Where did you get that tile?
Isn't it a nobby one and just the proper style?
I should like to have one just the same as that
Where e'er I go they shout: "Hello, where did you get that hat?"
Hats off to you History Guy! It was indeed, a pleasure. 🎩
Your channel is food for my brain - thank you for doing this!
Great episode, Lance. I really enjoyed that. 👏
Captain Picard in Star Trek TNG wore one in an episode
A collapsible one too. Startled Worf a bit when he popped it open. Always loved that scene.
What a thoroughly worthwhile topic. I truly enjoyed it.🎩🧢
I appreciate you and thank you for making content.
Like you, I too collect hats. I wonder who was under them. Many of my hats are military, but half the collection relate to professions such as Brakeman, fireman, driver, gas station attendant, pilot and sea merchant. The charm of the collection is that my grandkids see them and spend time paying me questions. Good show. 12:54 12:54
7:40 I didn't realize Lincoln WASN'T wearing his top hat on the Penny! Though, it would take up like half of it, i bet we could easily mint a special Penny including this iconic piece of his history he wore.
Thank you for the lesson.
Soldiers were given tall hats to make them appear more imposing on the battlefield. So that is probably some of the psychology involved. Conversely, a top hat could be used to show that the person is "stately" - unlikely to break into a run. Or, as with the dandies, giving you a way of "standing out" from the crowd while pretending that you don't care. So many messages!
That opera hat is awesome. Much love, Lance.
Wow! What a great and informative video!
There is definitely something about a top hat. It just looks the part. Wonderful.
Having once been a police officer, I prided myself on my skills in observation. However, I am wincing now as I realize that I looked at Top Hats as all being of one style, when in fact, as you have shown, there are many. Frankly, now I would like to have one to go with my Tricorn.
Drop by Lock and Company, St James’s Street, London. They’ll set you up!
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel, but Sir, I am not Major Stovall visiting his old air base at Archbury. Also, no passport. Thank you for the thought, though.
@@DocLaw172 Major Stovall was wearing a Homburg.
@@danielcobbins8861 (SSssshhh, I know, I wanted to see if the History Guy caught that )
I really like your work. The Top hat history is cool.
The history of where the top hat material came from would be cool.
It’s what drove the Hudson Bay company to the NW. in search of the beaver that made the best Top hats!
Thanks for all you do.
I enjoy the content. Thank you! 🤘🤠
Thank you very much THG for your explanation of the Top Hat. It was informative and interesting.
Totally cool. I'm glad I am not the only one who loves hats. Growing up my Dad's work had him to traveling a lot, I did not want him to go so he made me a deal every place he went he would bring back a hat that pretty much summed the place where he had been. For example a three cornered hat from Boston a St Louis Carnivals baseball hat from St Louis and so on. So over the years I have managed quite a collection and in fact in the last few years I have expanded my hat collection to included movies I liked companies I thought (at least at the time) where cool.
Great job!!! The ending was great.
More hat episodes, please. I love hats. My parents had many hats. Hats make me sentimental.
I'm a fan of the Cabbie cap, as its not so ostentatious as the top hat but has a rakish style I like. Have about a doen variations. Hats off to THG.
7 1/8 is a surprisingly small hat size for such a tall man like Lincoln.
Saloon cars and cabs had tall passenger cabins so that men didn't have to remove their top hats while riding.
I have a couple top hats because I love the Marlene Dietrich look, but they're night impossible to incorporate into everyday wear. For a daily hat, i like a flat cap.
If you wore one on the street today women might faint.
I've been wearing my top hat with a black overcoat around town. It's a bit of fun, hopefully for everyone.
Great episode!
Hats off to THG....especially top hats....
Excellent one. Thanks!!
The Bowery boys have the perfect mix of toughness and style. Towering over people with the tall hat. Loved gangs of New York. Bill the butcher in his bloody apron and top hat, a menacing site.
“Top Hat” is unironically a fantastic movie.
Excellent video! Happy Birthday to the Top Hat!
Looking good HG! Very dapper
I enjoy your videos thank you!
Satirical news piece. Great fun. Thx
Hard to believe that people of that time were so simple as to be wiped up to rioting over a hat!
It kinda reminds me of how some schools act about kids wearing hats in class. They say it's a distraction but usually no one cares or notices until the teacher makes a big deal about it as if the kid is in a gang and is going to incite violence
They weren't, it was a fake story made 100 years later.
@@Albeetrosss Incorrect. As Slash admitted in the video, hats are convenient for "hiding behind", in addition to being a visual impediment for other students. There's no reason to wear them in a classroom.
Excellent informative video...
Thankyou.
This was a fun video. As an exchange student to Great Britain many years ago, I took the train to Richmond (of which Richmond, VA is named after) to a haberdasher and purchased an iconic "Bowler" from Dunn and Co.
Love some hat content. Great stuff as usual.
I can assure you as someone who has been to the Kentucky Derby 14 or 15 times that the top hat is not the hat of choice for that event. Instead I would say that the Panama hat is worn much more often. In fact I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone wear a top hat at the Derby
I think that skimmers and derby’s are also common. But there are plenty of photos of top hats at the derby, both classic and adorned.
@ I agree that the top hat WAS very common back in the day. Currently, as I stated, the Panama hat is seen and yes the skimmer as well. The derby not so much. The derby would have been of the era of the top hat. Now it is seen on the occasional man in some wild derby costume and there are plenty of those.
Hats off to you. Good video.
I started collecting hats because of the history guy. I love this show.