When did the bowler hat become a badge of the London City gentleman? In the mid-nineteenth century bowler hats were worn as hard hats by artisans and engineers, a very different social
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Londoners were transported back in time yesterday as these dapper English gentlemen and women casually mingled with commuters while wearing traditional three-piece suits and bowler hats - digitalhub
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