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Completing these high-fashion ensembles is the new Flat-top hat in fuzzy Shetland-finished felt, with a narrow brim and a sporty taper running up to an absolutely flat summit. There's even a bow in the back...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: When the Living Is Easy | 5/4/1956 | See Source »

...have to be in bed by 12 and up at 8. There'll be a gong to wake them. The main emphasis will be on learning about the places we visit." Elsa had only one indulgence to offer her serious-minded Achillonauts. "If you wear your hat with brim turned to the side, it will mean, 'Don't anybody speak to me. Just don't talk to me.' That way I think we will enjoy our 15 days together more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Well-Heeled Achilles | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...cleanup, a hired man-or what most of the reporters at first took to be a hired man-ambled up to see what was going on. He was dressed in blue slacks, a blue denim sports shirt, white rubber-soled shoes, and a floppy Panama straw hat with its brim set at a rakish angle. In a quick doubletake, the reporters recognized the nation's best-known part-time farmer. After greeting his guests genially, Dwight Eisenhower approvingly examined the heifer, the gift of the Montgomery County (Md.) Fair, and asked how old she was. "Eight or nine months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Farmer in the Dell | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...crewmen turned their great searchlights toward the ground to warm themselves in their artificial sunlight. The desert was bitter cold, and no one seemed to have enough clothing, except, perhaps, veteran Atom-Bomb Watcher Leonard. He was encased in layers of woolens. wearing a cowboy hat with a brim curled like a potato chip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, may 16, 1955 | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...Italian possession, the city of Trieste, has also been restored to the beloved fatherland." Off next morning for Trieste University, Ambassador Luce was greeted by the school's rector, who gave her a silver medal and a blue, scoop-shaped law student's hat with a fringed brim. The professors who picked the hat explained that it not only went well with her present job in international law but also matched the color of her ensemble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 27, 1954 | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

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