Then one Friday afternoon, Wolfenden was "wearing a ridiculous thing on my head that we'd customised with gems", while working at a vintage fashion shop, Steinberg and Tolkien, when a mystery customer took a fancy to her headwear, saying: "I'd like to borrow it if I can.
But, says McGlynn of his headwear, "it's just a bag".
As I remove this summer's least sought-after headwear from my poor head, I see his point.
"It states in our Jedi doctrination that I can wear headwear.
I had several headwear options because hats, like T-shirts, turn up frequently in the swag pile.
"I witnessed carloads of Muslim men – yes, I identified them by their headwear, their beards and their dress – who would set fire to the homeless men, who would kick the shit out of us just because we were on the streets," she said.
At Block Headwear in NoLIta, women cut out the middleman (i.e., the boyfriend) and buy the hats for themselves (left, a range from $35 to $85).
Despite spying, from the window, a multitude of colorful puffy parkas from Pucci (24 East 64th Street; $1,290 for a jacket, $1,460 for a coat, $845 for a vest) and hand-crocheted multicolored Tulip Beanies from Neff Headwear (Paragon, 867 Broadway, at 18th; $25.95), I did not win the argument with my niece.
"This is the only job I've ever had where I've gotten into an argument about 17th-century Prussian headwear," said Kyle Davis, a game developer at Valve, which is based near Seattle.
Today I suppose we carry about 3,000 pieces of headwear.
