Six months after getting a planter's hat from Leon Drexler, who by the way tells me that he has since sold several more of them, I came across the photo that was responsible for the project. That is of course Sir Winston Churchill in 1948, smoking as he paints.
I was unable to come up with the image for Stephen Tomkin when we were discussing the hat but he did just fine without it.
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That´s a good picture. I am more familiar with the Stetson that he sometimes wore for painting - well, he was half American, after all!
From the title I was hoping this would be an article about the velvet, embroidered hats worn with a smoking jacket. (Traditionally given to men by their wives, who wanted to keep the smell of tobacco from getting in their husbands hair!)
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