Whilst on the topic of Top Hats, here is some Top Hat Trivia:D

• One of the Smithsonian Institution's most treasured icons is Abraham Lincoln’s silk stove pipe top hat, worn to Ford's Theatre on the night of his assassination in 1865.  As a lawyer, he was known to tuck important papers, court notes, and contracts in his tall, worn top hat.  
  
  
• Louis Comte, a French magician in 1814, was the first to use the top hat to conjure up a white rabbit. 

• President Richard M. Nixon was the last President to be inaugurated wearing a top hat, and a hat of any kind.
  
  
• A grey topper is still worn in England for Ascot Week at the horse track.
  
  
• J.P. Morgan ordered his limousine in the early 1900s with an especially high roof so he could ride around without taking his hat off.
  
  
• The nick name “high hat” designated arrogance and snobbishness.
  
  
• Fred Astaire made over a dozen movies wearing a top hat, notably the 1935 “Top Hat” with Ginger Rogers.
  
  
• For refined, self-assurance, men would wear top hats tilted at a 10 degree angle, no more, no less. 

• Rock star, Alice Cooper was known for his signature top hat in My Nightmare phase.

• Harpo Marx wouldn’t be seen without his top hat.