SOME HAT FACTS

"Pork Pie Hat" 
written by Charlie Mingus and sung by Joni Mitchell

"WHEN CHARLIE SPEAKS OF LESTER
YOU KNOW SOMEONE GREAT HAS GONE
THE SWEETEST SINGING MUSIC MAN
HAD A PORK PIE HAT ON
A BRIGHT STAR
IN A DARK AGE"

Saint Catherine of Alexandria is the patron saint of milliners in France (about 307 A.D.) She is celebrated on November 25.

THE TERM VANITIES WAS USED IN REFERRING
TO HATS IN 15TH CENTURY BRITAIN

Ecuador began producing the Panama Hat as early as 1630!
The hats were not exported until the early 1800's

THE HAT ACT
A British law was implemented in 1732 which restricted the manufacturing of hats in the colonies of America.  This was done to protect the fiber industry in England.

The Anchorage Daily News recently ran a story on Kasilof Bar's Cap
collection making the Guinness World Records. 22,014 and growing!
They are in Tustumena Lodge, Kasilof, Alaska.

Did you know that in 1631, Governor William Bradford,
Isaac Winslow and Miles Standish sent over 6000 beaver
pelts weighing over 12,000 pounds, back to England?