objectHatObjectsA shaped head covering for dress and weather. Not top-hat or bowler as specialty forms alone, and not helmet as armour.Hat is historically related to Felt.Beck’s draper’s handbook seats felt among stocks shaped into hats of trade. A named hat beside felt as ordinary hat body, not top-hat as one specialty form.from S. William Beck · The Draper’s Dictionary, 1882historically related to · sourced · documentedsourcesThe Draper’s Dictionary · S. William BeckS. William Beck, The Draper’s Dictionary (1882).