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Hat-fashion political satire
Hat fashion satire
The organizing conceit of "The Hat Season": each successive hat style a man tries on (wide brim, peaked cap, top hat, cockade cap) is read by onlookers as a declaration of rival political allegiance.
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- Captions for Drawings §340 THE HAT SEASON
A satire of shifting hat fashions as political/social signaling in 1880s Russia -- each style (wide brim, peaked cap, top hat, cockade cap) is read by observers as declaring a rival ideological allegiance.
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