[ WP ] The average income of a person is displayed above their head

Hats, who would have thought the Queens lasting legacy would be hats. In the decade following her demise, her love of hats grew from a quaint detail about her life to a sartorial must-have. Every citizen had to have a hat. At first the style bloggers had dismissed it as a trend, a mourning population giving tribute to a great monarch, but it refused to die. It built up steam until a decade after her death, only the most deprived individuals were bereft of even a single hat. It no longer took a Sherlock Holmes to deduce ones economic standing based on your hat, it was obvious. Those at the top wore great hats with obvious displays of wealth. Some of the upper class was as crass as to sport hats with digital displays of their wealth, however that sort of display really was a trend and quickly passed. The middle class were always emulating the higher classes; however their hats were obviously one step down, lesser fabric, fewer gems, and the wrong label. The lower class, clinging to the belief that they belonged to the middle class spent outsized portions of their income on the previous season ’ s hats, only to be thwarted by noticeable changes in style, and were clearly identified by the differences. The lower classes sported vulgar attempts at Haberdashery, baseball hats or torn straw trilbies, occasionally some even went so far as to expose their bare heads to the populace. Often the police will intervene, preventing the perversion of onlookers by simple cotton hoods to the poorest who could not even afford a simple felt bowler.
