Kerry Vitali, 41, is a graphic designer at Houghton Mifflin. She’s partial to vintage clothes and especially hats; she guesses this one is from the 1940s.
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Kerry Vitali: It’s kind of for people to ask what it’s for. That whole monogram thing, I always thought it was a little dopey. It’s kind of my joke.
KV: They do get people’s attention. I see a lot of theater and sometimes it’s fun to be in costume. You get a lot of male and female attention. Old people just love it, because this is from their day. At the Stop Smiling party, Lois Weisberg came up to me and asked me about my hat and really made a fuss over it.
KV: I’m thinking about designing aprons, because I think it’s time for them to come back. I think it maybe went away because after the sexual revolution, it felt like, “This is some sort of symbol of servitude.” Whereas it’s just to keep your damn clothes clean. I wear them all the time.
