Following on from my last blog about Globetrotter, one
day I was in our Sloane Street shop and chatting to the staff in our formal wear department when they said
that several customers had requested that we stock hat boxes for their top
hats.
Giving it some thought, I decided that Globetrotter would be the perfect
maker.
I am convinced that my fascination with Globetrotter stems from the fact
that in the 1940s my Grandmother ran the luggage department of the long gone
Army and Navy stores in Victoria, where you could buy anything from a suit to a
garden shed and it would be dispatched to serving military personnel in the
then British Empire. My Grandmother looked after the requirements of such
luminaries as Winton Churchill, providing him with Globetrotter cases.
I decided
that the hat box would be made in black with grey corners reflecting morning
dress kit. I then had the base of the box lined with striped morning dress
trouser material and the lid with dove grey waistcoat fabric.
With silk top
hats now commanding huge prices it seems only sensible to invest in one of
these handsome boxes - if only to prevent someone sitting on your extremely
valuable hat and crushing it.
Jeremy
Hackett
