Lecturer in Fashion, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland University of Technology If you had to tell the story of one item or phenomenon in fashion, what would it be? See the end for ...

The 1830s were fraught times for hatters everywhere. Fashionable men clung to the beaver hat for centuries, but in the early 1800s that fashion was threatened by over-hunting the chubby rodents.

The fur trade brought newcomers to the Canadian North-West in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The English and then the French were here to secure beaver skins for the European hat-making ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Flint and Port Hat Company is a one-craftsman custom-hat shop in Bainbridge, Georgia. The hats are made by hand by owner and milliner Eldrick Jacobs and take up to four ...

You see them when they come to town with their bow legs, freshly laundered jeans and big belt buckles. They're the station hands and managers, the horsemen and camp drafters we call cowboys. But, as ...

Because beaver fur was once considered perfect for making the felt for high-quality hats such as the iconic top hat, beavers ...

One of Napoleon's famous two-pointed hats has been sold to a South Korean collector for nearly €1.9 million (HK$18.5 million) at an auction outside Paris. The black-felted beaver-fur hat is one of ...