On and off the avenue: top hats.(women's hats and hat shops)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 01-APR-02

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"That Easter-bonnet thing is strictly amateur day, like New Year's Eve for night-life people," said Linda Pagan, who describes her typical customer at THE HAT SHOP (120 Thompson St.; 219-1445) as "a style person, not a fashion person.'' On a recent Sunday afternoon at her downtown shop, Pagan was herself a living illustration of this type: she was clad in a pair of Second World War-era jodhpurs tucked into Wellingtons, a Vivienne Westwood sweater, and a tattersall hat with leather piping called a crusher and made by...

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