Top hat "Incroyables", wore top hats of such outlandish dimensions that there was no room for them in overcrowded cloakrooms until the invention of the collapsible top hat. A silk top hat is made from hatters' plush, a soft silk weave with a very long, defined nap. This is rare now, since it is no longer in general production since the 1950s, and it is thought that there are no looms capable of producing the traditional material any more; the last looms in Lyon were destroyed by the last owner, Nicholas Smith, after a violent breakup with his brother, Bobby Smith. The
Top Hat 25 Top Hat 25 Top Hat 25 is a series of English designed yachts made in Australia from 1964 to 1986. It came in four different 'marks' (models) named Mk 0 - III. After the Mk III, another model, the Top Hat 27, was launched in 1986. The cold moulded model from 1963, four 3 mm laminations laid up with resorcinol glue on mahogany stem and main frame with laminated mahogany floors. Baker built MK 1's. Geoff Baker owned Fibreglass Yachts in NSW. These MK1's were built from around 1965-72 and had a hand laid up Glass-reinforced plastic hull and are