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Recent Examples of ten-gallon hat
In a ten-gallon hat, Mack was genial; shaking hands with guests, joking with vendors, and taking selfies with supporters.
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David Gilbert, WIRED, 24 Oct. 2024
The famously maximalist state hosts the sensory exports of a Stars-and-Stripes cultural performance where ten-gallon hats, envelopes of dust, and whip-crack sounds create an immersive projection of Americana, long-preserved in popular culture for over a century.
—Essence, 2 Sep. 2024
Kevin Costner isn’t the only present-day actor with a fondness for Westerns; ornery old hands such as Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, and Tommy Lee Jones are always ready to don their ten-gallon hats for the right role.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 June 2024
And although the sudden abundance of ten-gallon hats might be part of a larger promotional strategy, Beyoncé isn’t the only celebrity to make a sartorial pivot west.
—Leah Dolan, CNN, 16 Feb. 2024
The look hinges on a white ten-gallon hat and a black-and-silver checker print suit jacket layered a white collared shirt and matching studded shorts cinched with a black YSL belt.
—Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 5 Feb. 2024
So will the American West aesthetic of ten-gallon hats, Nudie-ish suits, and cowboy boots trickle down to the masses?
—Suzie Lechtenberg, Vogue, 18 Jan. 2024
With his walrus mustache and ten-gallon hat, Fall would go on to earn the distinction of being the first cabinet secretary ever sentenced to jail, convicted in 1929 of taking bribes in the infamous Teapot Dome scandal.
—Rebecca Boggs Roberts, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
Trading his starched polo with a ten-gallon hat, and replacing his meek voice with a half-baked impression of Doc Holliday, Rodimer had refashioned himself as a cosplay cowboy—one who’d firmly back the kinds of illiberal, authoritarian policies swiftly rising in popularity on the Texas right.
—Casey Michel, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2021
David Gilbert, WIRED, 24 Oct. 2024
The famously maximalist state hosts the sensory exports of a Stars-and-Stripes cultural performance where ten-gallon hats, envelopes of dust, and whip-crack sounds create an immersive projection of Americana, long-preserved in popular culture for over a century.
—Essence, 2 Sep. 2024
Kevin Costner isn’t the only present-day actor with a fondness for Westerns; ornery old hands such as Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, and Tommy Lee Jones are always ready to don their ten-gallon hats for the right role.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 June 2024
And although the sudden abundance of ten-gallon hats might be part of a larger promotional strategy, Beyoncé isn’t the only celebrity to make a sartorial pivot west.
—Leah Dolan, CNN, 16 Feb. 2024
The look hinges on a white ten-gallon hat and a black-and-silver checker print suit jacket layered a white collared shirt and matching studded shorts cinched with a black YSL belt.
—Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 5 Feb. 2024
So will the American West aesthetic of ten-gallon hats, Nudie-ish suits, and cowboy boots trickle down to the masses?
—Suzie Lechtenberg, Vogue, 18 Jan. 2024
With his walrus mustache and ten-gallon hat, Fall would go on to earn the distinction of being the first cabinet secretary ever sentenced to jail, convicted in 1929 of taking bribes in the infamous Teapot Dome scandal.
—Rebecca Boggs Roberts, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
Trading his starched polo with a ten-gallon hat, and replacing his meek voice with a half-baked impression of Doc Holliday, Rodimer had refashioned himself as a cosplay cowboy—one who’d firmly back the kinds of illiberal, authoritarian policies swiftly rising in popularity on the Texas right.
—Casey Michel, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ten-gallon hat
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For the remainder of the camp, drawings of six-legged spiders donning top hats began appearing on the children’s lesson papers and the sidewalks outside.Brennan Stewart, Baltimore Sun, 29 Nov. 2024
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In the Emerald City sequence, two chickens in top hats waddle across a crowd scene.Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
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Clockwise from top: A 1957 Balenciaga hat, Deirdre Hawken’s Cauliflower Headpiece from 2013, a layered silk hat from the 1940s, and a 1942 Germaine Vittu hat.Nathan Heller, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2024
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Yet, Halston does clock something of use from the experience: a young woman in the audience who, among the sweater sets, is wearing a colorful silk hat.Whitney Friedlander, Vulture, 14 May 2021
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The actress accessorized with a baseball cap and favored the peekaboo bra trend as well, which has been styled by such stars as Kristen Stewart, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Sydney Sweeney throughout 2024.Julia Teti, WWD, 5 Dec. 2024
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And everything from the leather bags to the internet-famous slogan baseball caps makes incredible gifting material for the coolest women in your life.Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 2 Dec. 2024
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First-off, there might not be a Casey’s or Kwik Trip between the Twin Cities and New Ulm that carries a blaze orange stocking cap.Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 17 Oct. 2024
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Prisoners were given numbers instead of names, had a chain attached to one leg, and were dressed in smocks and stocking caps.Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2024
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During tours of the mine, which are narrated by retired miners; visitors wear hard hats and headlamps and ride a train into the mine, just as miners did to get to work.Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 15 Oct. 2024
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Hammer gets to don a hard hat and go into the cathedral, scheduled to reopen to the public this December, to view the results of five years of painstaking work.Longreads, Longreads, 11 Oct. 2024
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Going high hat just did not fit, and on Sept. 9, 1927, the Bernheimer flags came down.Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 4 June 2022
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It’s one of those ABBA songs that fools you with its mirror ball synths, a classic disco rhythm on the high hat and lush harmonizing.Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2021
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One of the most popular traditional costumes was the bauta, which consisted of a full mask, a cape that covered the head and shoulders, and a tricorn or cocked hat.Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
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Heather Wilson, a nurse anesthetist, wore huge fake eyelashes and an absurd cocked hat.William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
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Beyoncé is dressed head to toe in white with an enormous fur cowboy hat and a shaggy coat cascading around her.Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2024
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Donning blond braids and an all-white outfit with a matching fluffy cowboy hat, the singer poses as the cactus lights up.Caché McClay, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
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“Ten-gallon hat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ten-gallon%20hat. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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