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Filmed by the owner from inside a car, the video first shows a dark figure in the corner—a skeleton with a beard and top hat—facing the wall.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025 -
So there’s also the lizard, the top hat with the veil moment, the secret handshake — which, in our version, becomes a five-minute production number.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
20 Oct. 2025
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Donning a short dark wig and backwards baseball cap, Carpenter looked almost unrecognizable in the sketch.—
Brendan Morrow,
USA Today,
19 Oct. 2025
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Meyer, 37, wore a baseball cap over her long blonde hair.—
Catherine Santino,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
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Her husband, Carter Reum, 44, dressed as Woody, complete with a cowboy hat and holster.—
Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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The post was accompanied by an undated photo of Spears riding a horse while wearing white short shorts, a black cowboy hat and a bikini top.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
20 Oct. 2025
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Clockwise from top: A 1957 Balenciaga hat, Deirdre Hawken’s Cauliflower Headpiece from 2013, a layered silk hat from the 1940s, and a 1942 Germaine Vittu hat.—
Nathan Heller,
Vogue,
17 Apr. 2024
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Yet, Halston does clock something of use from the experience: a young woman in the audience who, among the sweater sets, is wearing a colorful silk hat.—
Whitney Friedlander,
Vulture,
14 May 2021
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One of the most popular traditional costumes was the bauta, which consisted of a full mask, a cape that covered the head and shoulders, and a tricorn or cocked hat.—
Elizabeth Djinis,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 Feb. 2024
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Heather Wilson, a nurse anesthetist, wore huge fake eyelashes and an absurd cocked hat.—
William Finnegan,
The New Yorker,
15 May 2021
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Both of them wore their stocking caps pulled down beneath the hoods of their anoraks.—
Ann Patchett,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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When Mitchell broke into the house, she was dressed in all black, with a black stocking cap, and carried items such as a covered flashlight and a prybar.—
Ingrid Harbo,
Twin Cities,
24 Sep. 2025
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Artist and designer Cecil Beaton performed a coy fashion magazine pose in full drag, his slender form crowned by an enormous picture hat that transforms him into something approaching a human flower, photographed by the duo David James Scott and Edgar Wilkinson.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2025
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Okay, Emily is wearing a picture hat that makes her previous hat look tiny.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
2 May 2025
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This regulatory void raises concerns about exclusions for pre-existing conditions, potential service caps, and the absence of comprehensive coverage for preventive care.—
Richard Menger MD MPA,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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And blowing a whistle, a proletarian prophet in a red service cap.—
Ostap Kin,
The New York Review of Books,
23 Mar. 2022
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