Extra Tall Stove Pipe Hat

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The top hat’s swan song may have been Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire’s 1935 film of the same name, one of the most famous of the duo’s performances, in which Astaire wears a top hat with an elegance and panache to rival Brummel himself ( and famously dances with one too). A cap widely worn in Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, the southern Philippines and southern Thailand, mostly among Muslim males. May be related to the taqiyah.

The top hat is standard in countries such as England, Finland, the United States, and Sweden as formal attire. A skullcap made from a man's felt fedora hat with the brim trimmed with a scalloped cut and turned up. Herbert, Luke (1827). The Register of Arts, and Journal of Patent Inventions, Volume 4. p.64. Archived from the original on 2017-02-28 . Retrieved 2016-09-26. In popular culture, the top hat is frequently comic, subversive or ridiculous – worn by such varied characters as Willy Wonka, stage magicians, steampunk cosplayers, the Fat Controller and Slash from Guns n’ Roses.A type of decorative cap mainly worn in the 19th and early 20th century with sleepwear or lingerie.

Also known as "gob hat" or "gob cap." A sailor cap worn in several navies, of white canvas with an upright brim.A military style cap with a flat sloping crown, band and peak (also called a visor). It is used by many militaries of the world as well as law enforcement, as well as some people in service professions who wear uniforms. A conical pointed hat with eye holes. Historically associated with the Ku Klux Klan in the United States of America, but still used elsewhere in other contexts (such as the example illustrated, featuring people from Nazareno processing during Holy Week in Spain).