La Mode Memoirs: The Boater Hat
Edited by Hannah Rothstein
Call it a boater, a basher, a skimmer, a sennit, a somer, a katie, a cady—call it whatever you like (I’m sticking with boater); no matter how you look at it, the boater is one heck of a hat, and it’s riddled with more history than the streets of Boston. Find how this odd shape got its start, and why you’ll probably see it again in the future.
