Buttons was reading again last night … what is a “wideawake?”
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Buttons was reading again last night … what is a “wideawake?”
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It’s a kind of hat with a low crown and a broad brim, similar to a “Quaker” hat. Pictures can be found at https://www.google.com/search?q=wideawake+hat+image&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1Q1DLUS_enUS352US352&aq=t
I was just reading about this! It’s called a wideawake because the felt it’s made of doesn’t have any ‘nap’ (whatever that is). If you’re not napping, then you must be wide awake!
Well done, Ruby! “Nap” is a fuzzy surface on cloth or a hat body. Velvet, for instance, has a nap; silk does not.
And the story… ?
Excellent Roxie and Ruby … and one detects a little “pawky humour,” there, Ruby…
And the story… ?
That would be Grant Monro in “The Yellow Face – fitting due to the sleepless nights he had been having of late.
A non-canonical answer appropriate for the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War: Wideawakes were Abraham Lincoln supporters during the election of 1860.