Over the bowler hat was poised a large hammer, which, in reaction to the noise heard, would come down on the hat with varying degrees of force.
I personally have never worn a cloth cap or, indeed, a bowler hat.
In the old days, the foreman was a respected figure, with his bowler hat, his gold watch chain and the power to hire and fire.
Too often, as average undergraduates, we were apt to evade this rather intimidating and aloof don, even then always dressed in his bowler hat.
The women wear berets, and sometimes they are not dissimilar from a bowler hat.
The unarmed, unprotected, avuncular policeman is as much out of place in a riot as a bowler hat in a battle.
Last week we had the demonstration of the pin-striped trousers and bowler hat brigade.
There is nothing exciting about the engineer in an old-fashioned bowler hat and corduroy trousers.
