silk hat

A friend ran down the pier, dived overboard and pulled him out; but the silk hat floated off with the tide.

Today, three years later, the old gentleman is berating his friend because the silk hat was lost.

He was perfectly groomed, clad in evening-dress, and with his gloves and his silk hat in his hand.

He wore a tall silk hat, with an ancient straight brim, and a black frock coat and a terribly solemn expression.

At once I noticed that a new man had appeared among them—a red-faced, stocky man wearing a frock-coat and a shiny silk hat.

To look up at the young giant, the stranger tipped back his head, until his shining silk hat was in danger of falling in the dirt.

You can put a Derby in a corner of a trunk but a silk hat would be ruined.