For every occasion there is a hat: seductive, coy, demure, guileless, jaunty, captivating. Putting the hat on suddenly invokes drama. The setting might be a high society cotillion, a day at Ascot Racecourse, or a night at the masquerade, but the outcome is the same. With more than a soupçon of a modern-day gender blur, this collection renders le chapeau, and the man wearing it, in a new light.