Candles for Jewish holidays were sold nearby at Abraham's Dry Goods, and the tango was danced nightly at Max Sperber's Silk Hat.

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I'm going to bundle up tight today -- silk underwear, hat, gloves, and insulated boots -- and go for a walk in the woods, just to savor the depth of silence, the sense of a world brought to a point of absolute and unimaginable stillness.

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"I love making the bodies of the hat out of the silk dupioni, but then when it gets to trimming the hat, and I can actually take a strip of fabric and weave it, wind it and swirl it up with silk organza into a rose curl or a Marguerite, and I feel like a sculptor, " Steinmann said.

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Cover: American model wearing a Galanos-designed hat and crocodile print silk chiffon dress.

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His closing look, an ivory colored gown in silk and tulle with delicate beadwork topped off by a luscious fur wrap and hat had me thinking of fantastical scenes in a cold climate.

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It was Major General Nathaniel Coles' hat that made the boldest statement: a beaverskin chapeau de bras, with a black silk grosgrain ribbon cockade, gilt-metal eagle pin and 20-inch ostrich feather plume.

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