[Sndbox] Why did colonial people wear tricorn hats?

[Charles]

Why did colonial people wear tricorn hats? Because it was a practical design, particularly when rolled down. The familiar three-cornered hat of the Revolutionary War was really a round hat with a very wide round brim, wide enough to act as a partial umbrella if one hunched hard enough. It could also be tied down around the ears. Some parsons held the tricorn as a symbol of the Trinity. Parsons and Quakers often wore them rolled up only on the sides. Pitmen, sawyers at the lower end of a pit saw, stiched on extra brimming to ward off the sawdust showering them.   Charles Mims http://www.the-sandbox.org

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