Bowler Hat

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 22042

mediaphen at hotmail.com wrote:

> Come to think of it, didn't R/H see the tea leaves resembling a
> bowler hat, thus foreseeing a future in MoM? Forgive my weak
> knowledge of British hat culture (bangs fashion part of brain in oven
> door), but what is a bowler hat? I just keep imagining what kind of
> hat you would wear when you go bowling, but that doesn't seem right
> to me... A little help?

A "bowler" is the British term for what an American would call a
"derby" hat.  It has a certain "middle-class" air the way a top
hat has an "upper-class" look.  You may notice that Cornelius
Fudge wears a bowler (it's purple, isn't it?  Or was it green?),
hence, probably, the remark about the MOM.


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>