The 1830s were fraught times for hatters everywhere. Fashionable men clung to the beaver hat for centuries, but in the early 1800s that fashion was threatened by over-hunting the chubby rodents.

For Alaska State Troopers and other police departments across the north, the fur trapper hat is iconic. The State Department of Public Safety buys about 50 of them a year – and is looking for a new ...

ON LAKE VERMILION, NEAR COOK -- It's 10 below zero on New Year's Day, and Tom Yankowiak of Cook has appointments to keep with 15 beaver huts. Yankowiak is near one of those lodges now, chipping ...

Samantha Youngren couldn't help slipping her hands into a pair of pure white polar fox mitts Wednesday night at the Duluth Boat, Sports, Travel and RV Show. Next, she and her husband, Alex, had to ...

PENDLETON, Ore. – In some parts of the country, a man can be judged by the cut of his suit or his designer tie. Here, in a town known for its rodeo culture, men size each other up by the quality of ...

Lecturer in Fashion, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland University of Technology If you had to tell the story of one item or phenomenon in fashion, what would it be? See the end for ...

To get in on the hat trick this season there are plenty of haberdashers of all kinds in the borough — from those that carry the finest beaver fur hats to shops that stock the hippest of headpieces. A ...

Reading natural history is fraught with a particular kind of peril. The typical progression from “here are amazing facts” to “there used to be [X] million of these majestic creatures, until humans ...