"Already they looked like juvenile Bobs, Jacks and Hughies, in what was gradually replacing the old-fashioned grey twill and flannel as the uniform of the Great Northwest grazier: white moleskin breeches, white shirt, a flat-crowned grey felt hat with a broad brim, and ankle-high elastic-sided riding boots with flat heels."
"It was Pierre Renoir, who did not clap a bowler hat on his head, but wore a perfectly ordinary felt hat and the sort of clothes worn by any civil servant, whether or not attached to the police."
"He wore a felt hat sideways; it was the only way to fit over his broad forehead, which had been flattened in infancy by a papoose board."