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I’m young again.

Yesterday, I took one look at the shoe hat pictured in the IDS and realized I officially don’t get the younger generation. That was yesterday. Turns out, it’s a kind of crazy that dates back a while.

Elsa Schiaparelli teamed with Salvador Dalí in the 1930s to come up with a shoe hat. This image of the Schiaparelli hat comes from the ClusterFlock blog:
shoe_hat.jpg

The haute coutre article implies the shoe hat is a fashion thing. I’m not sure this qualifies, but here’s an example (pulled from someone’s personal gallery):
VCA Student with Shoe Hat

I’ve got a new use for our old shoes now that will make Carter the coolest kid in school. …

Carter-shoeHat

By Kevin Makice

A Ph.D student in informatics at Indiana University, Kevin is rich in spirit. He wrestles and reads with his kids, does a hilarious Christian Slater imitation and lights up his wife's days. He thinks deeply about many things, including but not limited to basketball, politics, microblogging, parenting, online communities, complex systems and design theory. He didn't, however, think up this profile.