Reflects a new understanding of modernism by following the fortunes of a single item of fashion.
"When Fred Miller Robinson tugs the bowler from the closet in The Man in the Bowler Hat: His History and Iconography, a wealth of cultural and social baggage comes tumbling out after it.--Esquire
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