A Prat in a Hat? Far From It. My New Trilby Can Help Make Britain a Better Place
Daily Mail › November 14, 2008
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MOST days at lunchtime over the past couple of years, I've walked on my way to and from the pub past a tiny shop that specialises in gentlemen's hats.
It's in an alleyway off the High Street and I've always wondered how it manages to survive. Even before the credit crunch, it never seemed to have any customers.See the full content of this document
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A Prat in a Hat? Far From It. My New Trilby Can Help Make Britain a Better Place
Let's face it, very few men buy smart hats these days.
Indeed, the thought often occurred to me, as I looked into the window, that the shop might be a front organisation for a secret government agency. If I pulled back the curtain behind the piles of bowlers, deerstalkers and trilbys, perhaps I might find a vast network of nuclear blast-proof bunkers, staffed by thousan...See the full content of this document
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