A Commonplace Book

Category: hats, caps, and headwear...

  • men wore hats, in the form of caps or hoods in ancient times, but women favored veils and wimples until the late Middle Ages
  • finding the type of hat(s) that looks good on you
  • I will continue wearing the white hat and black mask until I ride up into the big ranch in the sky. (Clayton Moore)
  • You take off a ski hat and you should immediately put a paper bag over your head. (D. Salzberg)
  • Two things a novelist can do with a hat: Talk through it or pull a rabbit from it. (PS Prescott)
  • And all your future lies beneath your hat. (J. Oldham)
  • The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads; and mamma in her 'kerchief and I in my cap, had just settled down for a long winter's nap. (Clement Moore)

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