"By the 1980s, practically no one under 60……" — Peter York
"By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except weddings, funerals or Ascot. Hats had been in competition with hair, and hair had won. Thirty years before that, Brits of all classes and ages wore hats all the time."
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Peter York
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61 Quotes by Peter York
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