Top Hats Frightening to Timid People

From the Wikipedia enty on Top Hats, about their inventor being arrested by the fashion police:

The top hat caused a riot the first time it was seen in London. The perpetrator was a “haberdasher” named John Hetherington, who designed it, made it and was the first person to wear it into the street in 1797. According to a contemporary newspaper account, passersby panicked at the sight and ran in terror. Several women fainted, children screamed, dogs yelped, and an errand boy’s arm was broken when he was trampled by the mob. Hetherington was hauled into court for wearing "a tall structure having a shining luster calculated to frighten timid people." He was fined £50.

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