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Fashion Week: The First Top Hat Got Its Inventor Arrested
Manage episode 490306800 series 2922787
We’re replaying some of our favorite shows about clothes and the people who wear them. In this episode from January 2021, the story of the debut of the top hat, and what a debut it was. Plus: the time in 1974 that a team at MIT built a 35 pound yo-yo and dropped it from a 21 story building.
History of the Top Hat (International Formalwear Association via Archive.org)
James H. Williams, Jr. and the world’s largest yo-yo, 1974 (MIT Black History)
1691 episodes
Manage episode 490306800 series 2922787
We’re replaying some of our favorite shows about clothes and the people who wear them. In this episode from January 2021, the story of the debut of the top hat, and what a debut it was. Plus: the time in 1974 that a team at MIT built a 35 pound yo-yo and dropped it from a 21 story building.
History of the Top Hat (International Formalwear Association via Archive.org)
James H. Williams, Jr. and the world’s largest yo-yo, 1974 (MIT Black History)
1691 episodes
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