History of Hats - Oil Heritage Museum
History of Hats presented by the Oil Heritage Museum of Canada. This presentation will examine hats from the Oil Museum of Canada's collection. We invite participants to wear their favourite hat and discuss why they love it.
Hats have been a pervasive part of fashion for the last several hundred years. No outfit was complete without a hat or some type of head covering. It was unthinkable for a person to go out in public in the mid-20th century without a hat. Hats continue to convey messages to the public about the person wearing the hat such as status, morality, protection, fashion and cultural belonging. We will look at why people wear hats and fashion trends in hats. What messages we send with the hats we wear and why we continue to wear hats. This presentation will examine hats from the Oil Museum of Canada's collection. We invite participants to wear their favourite hat and discuss why they love it.