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2. Fedora - Wikipedia

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   The term fedora was in use as early as 1891. Its popularity soared, and eventually it eclipsed the similar-looking homburg. [2] The fedora hat's brim is usually around 2.5 inches (6.4 cm) wide, but can be wider, [2] can be left raw-edged (left as cut), finished with a sewn overwelt or underwelt, or bound with a trim-ribbon.

3. Whoopee cap - Wikipedia

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   George Lindsey as Goober Pyle wearing a typical whoopee cap.. A whoopee cap is a style of headwear popular among youths in the mid-20th century in the United States. It was often made from a man's felt fedora hat with the brim trimmed with a scalloped cut and turned up.

4. Global trade of secondhand clothing - Wikipedia

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   Private dealers went door-to-door in London soliciting used clothing, which they re-sold wholesale at the exchange. Overseas demand was so great that one major exporter needed around 5,000 suits per week in 1833. [1] At the same time, as British households grew wealthier, used clothes also began to be donated in large quantities to charity.

5. Stetson - Wikipedia

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   By 1886, Stetson's hat company was the largest globally and had mechanized the hat-making industry ("producing close to 2 million hats a year by 1906"). [2] The Stetson Hat Co. ceased production in 1968 and licensed another hat company. [2] However, these hats still bear the Stetson name, with the hats produced in St. Joseph, Missouri.

6. 1960s in fashion - Wikipedia

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   Men's hats, including the pork pie hat and Irish hat, had narrower brims than the homburgs and fedoras worn in the 1950s and earlier. During the mid-1960s, hats began to decline [ 72 ] after presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson appeared in public without one.

7. Cloth merchant - Wikipedia

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   Alternative names are clothier, which tended to refer more to someone engaged in production and the sale of cloth, whereas a cloth merchant would be more concerned with distribution, including overseas trade, or haberdasher, who were merchants in sewn and fine fabrics (e.g. silk) and in London, members of the Haberdashers' Company.