John Hetherington is an apocryphal Englishhaberdasher. A frequently republished story from the late nineteenth century claims that in 1797 he invented the top hat and caused a riot by wearing it in public in London.
The storyedit
In 1899 the quarterly London journal Notes and Queries published[1] a letter by a Richard H. Thornton of Portland, Oregon, quoting a "note from a recent number of the Hatters' Gazette[a]". The note claims Hetherington as having decided to wear his invention of a "silk hat" in public on the 15th of January 1797 with the intention to "cause a sensation" only to be surrounded by a "howling mob".
The note claims to quote an unnamed gazette as having reported the following day that
John Hetherington... was arraigned before the Lord Mayor yesterday on a charge of breach of the peace and inciting to riot, and was required to give bonds in the sum of £500[b] [for having] appeared upon the public highway wearing upon his head what he called a silk hat... a tall structure, having a shiny lustre, and calculated to frighten timid people.... several women fainted at the unusual sight, while children screamed, dogs yelped, and a young [boy] was thrown down by the crowd which had collected and had his right arm broken.
The note concludes by claiming to quote a comment in The Times published the same day[verification needed] approving of the hat and stating that it was "destined to work a revolution in headgear".
Notesedit
^A trade journal for hatmakers published in London since 1877.[2]
^Thornton, Richard H. (29 April 1899). "The First Silk Hat in London". Notes and Queries. Ninth series. III. London: John Francis: 325. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
^Wolff, Michael; North, John S.; Deering, Dorothy, eds. (1976). The Waterloo directory of Victorian periodicals, 1824-1900. Vol. Phase 1. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. p. 464. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
April 18, 2024
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