- How much fluid does the “Ten Gallon Hat” (a kind of cowboy hat) from the John B. Stetson Company actually hold?
- What comedian wore a “Yellow Zowie” in one of his movies? Name that movie.
- Who wore a “pork pie” hat in his movies? This was a vintage comedian who was most famous for his work in the silent movies but continued to appear in movies until the 1960s.
- If you know the circumference of you head how do you calculate your hat size?
- The “cloche”is a bell shaped hat popular in the flapper days of the 1920s. “Cloche”means “bell”in which language?
- The Tam o’Shanter is named after a poem by which famous author?
- Which famous person is well known for wearing a “stove pipe”top hat?
- Why were swim caps hard to obtain during World War II?
- Who was famous for wearing a “pill box” hat?
- Who wrote the famous story “The Cat in the Hat”?
Answers
- According to the Stetson site the 10 Gallon hat actually hold three quarts of liquid. Just imagine a hat had to die to find out this answer!
- Jim Carrey wore a “Yellow Zowie”in the film “The Mask“. If you are out going you can get your very own bright Yellow Zowie on the Barons Hat site.
- Buster Keaton wore a pork pie hat (it’s shaped like the famous pork pie out of the UK). It is said that he designed and made many of his hats. These type of hats are now being worn by women as well as men. Like many of the hat styles traditionally worn by men.
- You divide by pi (3.14 approximately) and round up to the nearest 1/8″. Please see my post on finding your hat size. Yes it comes from the math formula you learned at school. Sometime high scholl learning is actually useful.
- French
- Robert Burns – please see my post on the “Scottish Hat” .
- Abraham Lincoln – see this post.
- Swim Caps were traditionally made of rubber – a commodity really needed in the war effort in a great number of ways.
- Jackie Kennedy (see added the Onassis later when she married shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis).
- Dr Seuss. (Theodor Seuss Giesel)
