Fashion Week: The First Top Hat Got Its Inventor Arrested

from Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson · host Brady Carlson

We’re replaying some of our favorite shows about clothes and the people who wear them. In this episode from January 2021, the story of the debut of the top hat, and what a debut it was. Plus: the time in 1974 that a team at MIT built a 35 pound yo-yo and dropped it from a 21 story building. History of the Top Hat (International Formalwear Association via Archive.org)James H. Williams, Jr. and the world’s largest yo-yo, 1974 (MIT Black History)Hats or not, we think our Patreon backers are tops

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