Men, for example, were expected to remove their hats inside residential elevators—always by the crown, never the brim—but not in public or commercial lifts. In London women attending weddings could take off their hats only after (and if) the mother of the bride did. “That is out the window now,” says Ben Dalrymple, managing director at Lock and Co. Hatters in London, one of the oldest hat shops in the world (it was founded in 1676). Ebenezer Scrooge made nightcaps look pretty good, and women have traditionally been exempt if they wear some form of millinery. She would never wear a daytime hat in the evening, or a winter hat in the summer (“It just looks silly”).