hat-shop's

Updated: May 5, 2025

After Noblet's it was the Saxon Shoe Company and Dunn's hat-shop's turn to be looted, and one could see little guttersnipe wearing high silk hats and new bowlers and straws, who had never worn headgear before: bare-footed little devils with legs buried in Wellington top-boots, unable to bend their knees, and drunken women brandishing satin shoes and Russian boots till it seemed as if the whole revolution would collapse in ridicule or pandemonium.

(Louis George) L. G. Redmond-Howard - Six days of the Irish Republic: A Narrative and Critical Account of the Latest Phase of Irish Politics