The first bowler hat was originaly created for Edward Coke, the younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Leicester in 1849. It was designed by London hatmakers Thomas and William Bowlers for hatters ...

The bowler hat is a traditional part of womenswear among the Quechua and Aymara peoples of Bolivia, among whom it has been a fertility symbol ever since British railway workers introduced it in ...

THE bowler hat, that bastion of Britishness ... Brim full of English social history The hard-felt bowler was first introduced in the 19th century by William Coke, a Norfolk landowner, as a ...

leading to the association with liberation when the Phyrgian became confused for it at some point in history. Bowler hats became a signature for the Belgian artist Rene Magritte, who painted them ...

Colonel P. Youngman Carter of d’Arcy House, Tolleshunt d’Arcy, near Maldon, Essex, announced a horrifying discovery (in an old wardrobe): a bowler hat whose brim turned down. Wrote he ...