Hats: Some Fun Facts.

[GHT]

Black taxis in London have a tall roof so that bowler hats can fit in.

If you’ve been in a London black taxi then you might have noticed that the roof is very tall! They were designed like this so that bowler hats could fit in. You need lots of room if you’re wearing one of those!

In North Dakota it's illegal to wear a hat whilst dancing.

There are some laws that are hard to believe and this is one of them! In Fargo, North Dakota, USA, it’s illegal to wear a hat whilst dancing. It’s also illegal to wear a hat in a place where dancing might take place. So, be careful!

Do you know of any hat facts?

 

[shopkin]

Black taxis in London have a tall roof so that bowler hats can fit in.

If you’ve been in a London black taxi then you might have noticed that the roof is very tall! They were designed like this so that bowler hats could fit in. You need lots of room if you’re wearing one of those!

In North Dakota it's illegal to wear a hat whilst dancing.

There are some laws that are hard to believe and this is one of them! In Fargo, North Dakota, USA, it’s illegal to wear a hat whilst dancing. It’s also illegal to wear a hat in a place where dancing might take place. So, be careful!

Do you know of any hat facts?

It has again become fashionable for Orca killer whales to wear salmon on their heads. A fad that had died out about thirty years ago.

 

[GHT]

It has again become fashionable for Orca killer whales to wear salmon on their heads. A fad that had died out about thirty years ago.

That sounded so far fetched I had to check it out.............and you are right. Amazing!

There was once a hat tax here in the UK!
Between 1784 and 1811, there was hat tax in the UK. William Pitt was the Prime Minister at the time and put this tax into action! Hat sellers had to get a licence to sell them.

The buyers had to pay extra on top of the cost of their hat for the tax which would go to the government.
The government believed that wealthier people would be able to afford expensive hats and so this was a good way to tax the rich.

Nowadays it's not only hats that are taxed, most non essential items attract what is known as VAT Value Added Tax.

 

[GHT]

Queen Elizabeth the First decreed that anyone over the age of seven must wear a hat/cap on Sundays.

People used to have to wear hats on Sundays and holidays. In 1571, Elizabeth l ruled that everyone had to wear a hat on those days. The rule was for anyone over the age of 7!

A chef's hat has 100 folds to represent 100 ways to cook an egg.

Chefs traditionally wear big, white hats which are known as toques. They have 100 folds in them. The folds represent 100 different ways that you can cook an egg. I can think of boiled, scrambled, poached & fried, that's about it.

 

[The Hatted Professor]

Fun facts: the names Fedora and Trilby come from men's hats named after plays, not women's hats worn by their female stars, as conventional wisdom and urban legends would have us believe.