Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1908 — Some Hat Lore. [ARTICLE]

Some Hat Lore.

With the ancient Greeks the hat was siipply an appurtenance of the traveler. The free citizen preferred to go bareheaded and only put on his broad-brimmed petasus for protection against the sun when on a long jour ney. Indeed, the uncovered head was part of his dignity, for the slaves and workmen wore always a kind o< pointed skull cap, the pllus, which therefore stood for a badge of servitude. Much the same scorn of habitually covering the head prevailed among the Romans. In England the hood was not finally given sp until the early part of the fifteenth century.