(1) Around her head she wore a black bandanna, upon which would usually sit her battered tricorne hat, but which at the moment was hung on a nail in her cabin.(2) The gesture is expected, but the hat is strangely unidentifiable, all the more so when compared with the prominent tricorne hat of the bourgeois in the prototype.(3) Officers' hats seem at first to have been a tricorne - or three-cornered - hat which was universal wear for gentlemen in the 1600s and beyond.(4) For a time in the 1700s, sailors imitated their officers a little in converting their headgear, at least when ashore, into a tricorne hat by tacking the brim in three places to the crown.(5) A decade after Moore's death, students who had no memory of the cape and tricorne were entering graduate school.(6) There was a patch over his eye framed by the black greasy hair but a tricorn hat covered the rest.(7) His hair was golden blonde, peaking through his tricorn hat.(8) Eccentric chic is apparently all very now: think Oxford beanies, tricorn hats, feather boas and you get some idea of the serious lack of taste required.
