Top hat top hat is a hard, black silk hat, with fur now often used. The acceptable colors of hats are much as they have traditionally been, with "white" hats (which are actually grey), a daytime racing color, worn at the less formal occasions demanding a top hat, such as Royal Ascot, or with a morning suit. In the U.S. top hats are worn widely in coaching, a driven horse discipline as well as for formal riding to hounds. The collapsible silk opera hat, or "crush hat", is still worn on occasions, and black in color if worn with evening wear as
The Italian Straw Hat (film) Ate the Hat". (Other languages: , , , ).) The Italian Straw Hat (film) The Italian Straw Hat () is a 1928 French silent film comedy written and directed by René Clair, in his feature debut, based on the 1851 play "Un chapeau de paille d'Italie", by Eugène Marin Labiche and Marc-Michel. On the day of Fadinard's wedding, his horse eats a lady's hat on a bush at the roadside, while the lady is hidden behind the bush with her lover Lieutenant Tavernier. Because she is married, she cannot return home hatless without being compromised, and Tavernier orders Fadinard to