‘Weird and Wacky design: If you want to get ahead get a hat!’

  If you want to get ahead – get a hat, so the old saying goes.  Apparently the saying is an old advertising pun, used by Dunn and Co in the 1940s.  In those days everyone wore hats.  In the 60s my father still wore a Trilby.  He looked very smart.  Old women still wore