Bowler hat , also known as billycock , bob cap , bombÃÆ'n or derby ( USA) is an informal hard hat with a round crown, created by captains London Thomas and William Bowler in 1849. Bowler, a protective and long-lasting hat style, is popular with British, Irish and Americans. working classes for the rest of the 19th century, and then with the middle and upper classes in Great Britain, Ireland and the eastern United States.
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Origins
The bowler hat is said to have been designed during the year 1849 by captains London Thomas and William Bowler to fulfill orders placed by the company of James Lock & amp; Co of St. James's, which has been commissioned by customers to design matching and low-crown hats to protect gamekeepers from low-hanging branches while riding on Holkham Hall, Thomas Coke plantation, Leicester's First Earl (the seventh creations) in Norfolk. The previous guards wore top hats, which easily collapsed and damaged. The identity of the customer is uncertain, with many suggesting it is William Coke. Yet research done by the younger relationship of Earl 1 throws doubt on this story, and it is now believed that a bowler was created for Edward Coke, Thomas Coke's sister, the 2nd Earl of Leicester. When Edward Coke arrived in London on December 17, 1849 to retrieve his hat, he reportedly laid it on the floor and stamped it twice to test his strength; hats survive this test and Coke pays 12 shillings for it.
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Cultural significance in the British Isles
The bowler has varying degrees of significance in British culture. Popular among the working class in the 19th century, from the early 20th century bowler hats were generally associated with businessmen working in the financial district, also known as "Gentlemen of the City". The use of a traditional bowler cap with City business outfits ended during the 1970s. During modern times, bowlers are not common, though the so-called City Gent remains a stereotype of the Englishman, wearing a bowler and carrying a rolled umbrella. For this reason, two bowler-hatted men are used in the UK building community logo (hereafter bank), Bradford & amp; Bingley.
In Scotland and Northern Ireland bowler hats are traditionally worn by members of the main Loyalist fraternities such as the Orange Orders, the Independent Original Loyalty Institute, the Royal Black Preceptory and the Apprentice Boys of Derry for their annual parades and celebrations.
Outside the British Isles
The bowler, not a cowboy hat or sombrero, is the most popular hat in the West America, prompting Lucius Beebe to call him "the West's winning hat". Both cowboys and rail workers prefer caps because they will not easily explode in high winds while riding a horse, or when poking their heads out of the train window. It was worn by both lawmen and criminals, including Bat Masterson, Butch Cassidy, Black Bart, and Billy the Kid. In the United States the hat is known as the derby, and American criminal Marion Hedgepeth is commonly referred to as the "Derby Kid".
In South America, the bowler, known as Spanish bombÃÆ'n in Spanish, has been worn by Quechua and Aymara women since 1920 , when introduced to Bolivia by British railway workers. For years, a factory in Italy produced such a hat for the Bolivian market, but now they are made locally.
In popular culture
The bowler hat became popularly used by certain actors, such as Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Curly Howard, and John Cleese, and also by John Steed's fictional character from The Avengers, played by Patrick Macnee.
In the 1964 film Mary Poppins, broadcast in London's Edwardian, 1910, London banker George Banks (played by David Tomlinson) wore outerwear. British building community Bradford & amp; Bingley listed over 100 separate trademarks featuring a bowler cap, its long-term logo. In 1995 the bank bought, for  £ 2,000, a bowler hat that once belonged to Stan Laurel.
The bowler is part of the Droog uniform that used the English character Alex in A Clockwork Orange as far as contemporary luxury attire for this character refers to a bowler hat.
There is a chain of restaurants in Los Angeles, California known as Brown Derby. The first and the most famous is formed like a derby. A chain of Brown Derby restaurants in Ohio is still in business today.
Many paintings by Belgian surrealists Renà ©  © Magritte, featuring a bowler hat. The Son of Man consists of a man with a bowler hat standing in front of a wall. The man's face was largely obscured by the green apple hovering. Golconda describes "rain men" all wearing bowler hats.
Choreographer Bob Fosse often puts a bowler hat into his dance routine. The use of this hat as a props, as seen in the 1972 film Cabaret, will be one of its trademarks.
Famous users
- The Plug Uglies, a nineteenth century American street gang, wore a bowler hat stuffed with cloth or wool to protect their heads while fighting.
- John Bonham, drummer for Led Zeppelin, often wore a bowler hat.
- Charlie Chaplin wore a bowler hat as part of his 'Little Tramp' costume.
- Edward Coke, for whom the first bowler hat was designed.
- Bing Crosby wears a bowler hat in the 1946 movie Road to Utopia, among others.
- Alex, the protagonist of A Clockwork Orange , wears a bowler hat.
- Lou Costello from Abbott and Costello often wore bowler hats.
- Laurel and Hardy are known for wearing a bowler hat.
- "Bowler Hat Guy," the antagonist of the movie Meet the Robinsons, is named for the hat of his choice.
- John Steed of The Avengers wore various bowler hats throughout the series.
- Boy George often wore a bowler hat in the 1980s.
- Oddjob, Waiter Auric Goldfinger, using his bowler hat as a weapon In the 1964 James Bond movie Goldfinger .
- John D. Rockerduck has different character traits when eating his bowler hat whenever he is defeated by Scrooge McDuck.
- J. Wellington Wimpy wears a bowler hat.
- John Hartford Composer and American, country, and bluegrass musicians wear bowler hats.
- Famous comic book characters who wear bowler hats include Timothy "Dum Dum" Dugan (Marvel Comics), Thomson and Thompson from The Adventures of Tintin series and The Riddler (DC Comics).
References
Further reading
- Fred Miller Robinson, Men in Bowler Hat: His History and Iconography (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1993).
- "Whatever happened to the Derby Hat?" Lucius Beebe, Gourmet , May 1966.
External links
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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