This one I liked because you can see the shape of the tophat.  The other one I liked because it had a feeling of a person.

The tophat is quite special to me.  I was 17, and my boyfriend at the time had a tophat.  In those day, tophats were still worn for certain special occasions, such as weddings and special affairs.  One afternoon, he said he was going to buy me a tophat, and we went downtown to St. Catherine Street in Montreal, to Classy Formalwear.  If you are Canadian, you probably remember them.  I tried it on, and M.L. purchased this hat for me.

Someone accidentally sat on it in Jasper, Alberta, as we were using it for a talent show we were putting on.  There is a big crease in the center.  But it is still with me, a genuine tophat.