Fashion faux pas like wearing white after labor day are taken pretty seriously by some people, well in New York City in 1922 a different fashion faux pas and tradition were taken so seriously it caused riots for three days.

What was it? It was hats, wearing hats, and not one of a sports team, it was straw hats.

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Sources
http://to-the-manner-born.blogspot.com/2011/09/straw-hat-rule-ii-silent-cal.html?utm

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OaoxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bNwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5556,1489569&dq=straw-hat+riot&hl=en

https://www.nytimes.com/1922/09/16/archives/city-has-wild-night-of-straw-hat-riots-gangs-of-young-hoodlums-with.html

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/04/straw-hat-riot-remembering-one-of-the-weirdest-crime-sprees-in-american-history.html

https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/straw-hat-riot/

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