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Headwear through the decades
It’s no secret; we’d be nowhere without our accessories. For decades, women have accessorised the way we know how; attaching a brooch here, popping on some pearls there, and buckling up a belt somewhere else. But there is one accessory, perhaps, that has changed its face more than any: the hat. Emily O’Brien talks us through the most iconic headwear from the Twenties through to the Eighties.
