Meatheads in meat hats
Steven Lewis | August 1, 2009
Via FHM’s “Office obsessions” column for June I found Hats of Meat, a website with pictures of exactly that: hats made from meat. What can I say? It’s a wide, strange world, people.
Music to wear your hat to
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.
The BBC offers music shows for a week only as a stream (not a [...]
The storm over women’s heads
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.
World mourns child-molesting song & dance man, and hat-lover
Steven Lewis | June 27, 2009
The fedora was a Michael Jackson trademark. While the star was much-loved, despite child molestation charges, no one sought to emulate his look. Now his dead is the fedora ready to come out from the trilby’s shadow?
“How to wear a hat” by James Cameron
Steven Lewis | June 13, 2009
Suits You, James Cameron’s new blog for Fairfax’s SMH and The Age, offers useful advice about men’s hats and styling without being prescriptive.
The BBC doesn’t know what makes a man wear a hat
Steven Lewis | June 3, 2009
The BBC’s article “What makes a man wear a hat?” offers flimsy arguments and no answers. There is, however, some good news for hat lovers.
Hugh Jackman is celebrity hat wearer of the year
Steven Lewis | June 2, 2009
Hugh Jackman has been named celebrity hat wearer of the year for his battered Akubra in the film “Australia”. But is it too long a bow to draw to say Drover’s headwear has popularised casual hat wearing?
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