"Man with Hat" (c) 2012 by Parmanu
"I do not know what it is like to live there, but as a visitor, no matter how many times I’ve been to the city before, New York does not fail to impress. Like Venice, Paris, or Mumbai, its character assails you the moment you step into the city. Arriving by train into the New York Penn station, the same passengers who were relaxed and laid back when they boarded the train in the suburbs spring into motion, like toys with wound up keys, and march with an infectious purpose through the station into the maze-like streets of Manhattan..."
Highly recommended reading and seeing, from one of my favorite writers and blogger friends.
Thank you for linking, Beth.
Looking again at the Man with Hat, I wonder if hats will ever come into vogue again, the way they were in the earlier part of the 20th century. I don't know what this trend shows, but Google's Ngram viewer indicates that after reaching a peak around 1940 and following a steep decline later, there has been a slight increase in the occurence of the word 'hat' in books published in recent years. Here's this fascinating graph:
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hat&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=10
It would be 'cool' to see hats back in fashion, wouldn't it?
Posted by: Parmanu | April 01, 2012 at 05:35 PM