Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-07-17 | Page 5 | White Top-Hat the Thing

WHITE TOP-HAT THE THING. King Edward Wears One, So There's No Question About It. LONDON. July 10. Ixindon hat-making firms nro experiencing qulto an unexpected demund for whlto top-hnt.i, and thry expect an oven bigger demand If the weather should continuo fine. "Tho cxamplo set by tho King, In wearing a whllo hut," said a well-known authority, "'Is being followed to a remarkable oxtonl. "It Is qulto an Innovation this year, although thcro havo been Isolated whlto 'hats for eoruo time; "Tho 'whlto hat Is really not white at all. Strictly speaking It Is a sort of a grayish or whitish French tlrab. but It has got tho nnnio of white and the name will probably cling to It. "Now that royalty and members of the peer-ago peer-ago ore going In for It largely, wo may expect to sec the well-dressed among tho great middle class wearing thousands or whlto top-hats. Anything moro distinctive and notlccahlo, more stylish nnd full of character than a whlto top-hat top-hat can scarcely bo found In all the wide range of htadgear."