Pop on a party hat

Hannah Betts jazzes up her wardrobe with perfect headwear

DID HUMANS BEGIN SPORTING hats 35,000 years ago? The Last Ice Age certainly provided the perfect storm: our brains expanded, we evolved social strategies such as bonding over fab threads, and it was seriously bloody cold. Our hankering after headwear is certainly ancient. The 30,000-year-ish Venus of Willendorf may be sporting a woven headpiece. Bronze Age “Ötzi,” who froze in the Alps around 3250BC, is clad in a bearskin cap; Tollund Man, offed circa 400BC, a pointy sheepskin number. It was only in the twentieth century that humanity discarded its millennia of lid love. One minute, titfers were donned not merely by anybody who was anybody, but one and all. Then, overnight, it appeared — to those who blamed a bare-headed JFK — hats went the way of the Ark.…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2024

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