This week we're taking a look at a riot with a very weird cause: Fashion. 

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The Straw Hat Riot of 1922: The Harsh Version of No White After Labor Day by Noelle Talmon: https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/straw-hat-riot/

The Straw Hat Riot of 1922: https://www.buniquemillinery.com/pages/the-straw-hat-riot-of-1922

The 1922 Straw Hat Riot Was One of the Weirdest Crime Sprees in American History by Justin Peters: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/04/straw-hat-riot-remembering-one-of-the-weirdest-crime-sprees-in-american-history.html

The Straw Hat Riots of 1922: The bad kind of New York fashion week by Greg Young: https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2020/03/the-straw-hat-riots-of-1922-the-bad-kind-of-new-york-fashion-week.html

The Straw Hat Riots of 1922 by Mark Mancini: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/61755/straw-hat-riots-1922

A fashion faux pas turned violent in NYC's Straw Hat Riot by Mike Vago: https://www.avclub.com/a-fashion-faux-pas-turned-violent-in-nyc-s-straw-hat-ri-1844916606

The Bloody Consequences of Wearing a Straw Hat After Summer by Emma Fraser: https://www.racked.com/2017/8/18/16113864/straw-hat-riots-summer-style-etiquette

"Straw Hat Smashing Orgy Bares Heads from Battery to Bronx", New York Tribune, Saturday September 16th, 1922: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1922-09-16/ed-1/seq-3/

History of Straw hats & Felt hats - Straw dress hats: https://www.hathistory.org/dress/#:~:text=The%20humble%20sublimity%20of%20the,for%20both%20men%20and%20women.

The Mulberry Bend Manhattan, New York by Luke J Spencer: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-mulberry-bend-new-york-new-york

Mulberry Bend: New York's Original Back Alley by Infamous New York: https://infamousnewyork.com/2017/03/19/mulberry-street-bend-new-yorks-original-back-alley/