Steven Lewis | July 22, 2009
Desmond Carrington’s show this week on BBC Radio 2 was themed to hats.
Desmond rummages through his collection of 250,000 titles to share some good tunes, some unexpected ones and a few you may have never heard before. This week’s theme is hats.
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Category: Hats in the media |
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Tags: BBC, Desmond Carrington, fedora, Matt Giraud, music, Radio 2
Steven Lewis | July 17, 2009
A conversation about hats in New Zealand, including cheesecutters (flat caps) and fedoras, with Juana of Cadlow Trading, a Kiwi online store.
Category: Hat shops |
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Steven Lewis | July 9, 2009
Men’s hats are confronting but they have nothing on the storms that gather over women’s heads. Wearing a full face covering like a niqab involves freedom of choice on both sides.
Category: Hats in the media |
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Tags: hijab, Jack Straw, Michael Ruhlman, mitre, muslim, Nicolas Sarkozy, niqab, religion, shtreimel, turban, veil, wimple, yarmulka
Steven Lewis | July 4, 2009
The lessons I learned after commissioning a knitted fez through Etsy, the auction site for handmade goods.
Category: Open Crown's collection |
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Tags: Alchemy, beanie, Blueskiesuk, BouquetSpecialDesign, custom, Etsy, Fez, handmade, hat, knit, knitted, wool
Steven Lewis | July 1, 2009
What associations, stereotypes and pre-conceptions are associated with what type of hat?
Category: Hats in the wild |
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Tags: Brendan Cowell, Ruben Guthrie, top hats
Steven Lewis | July 1, 2009
The Twitter account for men’s hat lovers: @OpenCrown
Category: Open Crown news |
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Tags: Men's hats, OpenCrown, Twitter