Down the road, three guys strut along dressed in full Clockwise Orange gear - white long johns, jock straps, black bowlers and canes.
Sometimes the men were in shirt sleeves, dark vests, and black bowlers; sometimes striped summer jackets and white straw boaters.
This morning 200 quiet men, most in black suits and orange stoles, many wearing black bowlers, marched briskly to the beat of a large drum.
He was a tidy gentleman, with a beautifully cut blue suit and a black bowler.
Tall, raw-boned, wide-shouldered, lantern-jawed, he gazed at me steadily with piercing, slightly beady brown eyes from under a black bowler.
He topped the look with a hat, a black bowler, and a splash of color - a red feather, to match his red earring.
Lewis had his black bowler, but during the service he held it in his lap.
Other buyers filled cardboard boxes with sparkly gold hats and dignified black bowlers.
He wore a sailor's black sweater under his coat, and a black bowler on his head.
Lest her wedding outfit look too romantic, Madonna wore a black bowler.