
The Demise of Hats
If you traveled back in time to an American city in 1918, one of the first things you’d notice is hats. Lots and lots of hats. At any outdoor gathering there would be a veritable sea of hats! Walking along city streets men and women would be wearing hats – many of them the white straw boaters popular during that decade. In my forthcoming novel, which is set largely in 1918, you’ll notice how pervasive they are. Hats continued to be common until the mid-twentieth century. But