Johnnysan said:No finer hat. No finer dog.
I don't want to stray too far off topic here, but have you ever seen the movie Hear My Song? It's a charming little film about a rascally concert promoter (Adrian Dunbar) who sets about to bring a legendary Irish tenor and tax evader (Ned Beatty) out of retirement to win back the love of Tara Fitzgerald (in an early role). There's an old-fashioned whimsical quality to the film that I think a lot of folks here might appreciate. The movie also features a great jazz guitar score by John Altman.
Anyway, there's a scene in which someone takes a whippet (the dog, not the hat) into a hospital or some such place and a woman reprimands him, "You can't bring that animal in here!" to which he indignantly replies "That's not an animal, that's a whippet!"