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the strip that turns a sweat-soaked rim into a fashion statement nobody asked for
means A band of ribbon, leather, or other material fitted around the base of a hat's crown, both decorative and practical for shaping or sizing the hat.
from A plain compound of "hat" and "band," both old Germanic-rooted English words. "Hat" descends from Old English hæt, a relative of "hood" and tied to a sense of covering. "Band" comes through Old English and Old Norse for something that binds or ties, a cousin of "bind." Put together since at least the medieval period, the hatband was originally a functional cord or strip that secured and adjusted a hat — only later did it become the spot for ribbons, feathers, and the occasional mourning crepe.
- Sweat origin
- Inner bands began as sweatbands, not decoration
- Press symbol
- Reporters' press cards were once tucked into hatbands
- Pugaree
- Indian-origin cloth band cooled colonial sun helmets
- Mourning code
- Black bands once signaled grief without a word
- Feather flex
- A jaunty feather marked Tyrolean and fedora bands
hatband of abraham lincoln — black silk band on his stovepipe hat, worn during the civil war era
hatband of winston churchill — decorative band on his bowler hat, iconic in 1940s britain