The man of refined tastes will always be found to be very fastidious in regard to his head wear, buying only the finest quality of hat, while a coarse nature will be satisfied with a cheap slouch hat. The prosperous business man also can generally be picked out by his hat, it being something substantial and good of its kind, while the man of mean and parsimonious habits will usually have a hat to correspond with his dwarfed nature. “Have a good hat; the secret of your looks Lives with the beaver in Canadian brooks; Virtue may flourish in an old cravat, But man and nature scorn the shocking hat.” [Illustration: _Fig 79._ _Fig 80._ _Fig 81._ _Fig 82._ _Fig 83._ _Fig 84._ _Fig 85._ _Fig 86._ _Fig 87._ _Fig 88._] We have now followed a few of the changes that hats have undergone from the earliest times to the present, and would bring our remarks to a close with a notice of the house of R. Dunlap & Co., which was founded by Mr. Robert Dunlap in 1857, who opened a small store November 14, at 557 Broadway, between Spring and Prince streets, and by originality of designs and selling the finest class of hats, he soon became the popular hatter of the city. Two years later, in 1859, Mr. Paran Stevens, the Napoleon of hotel-keepers, induced Mr. Dunlap to occupy a store under the Fifth Avenue Hotel, which was just then completed, and who desired only those as tenants who sold the best goods in their line. At this time the hotel, situated at the corner of Twenty-third street and Fifth avenue, was considered very far up town, and it was predicted that Dunlap’s venture would be a failure; but the young and enterprising hatter soon became the leading hatter of the country. The firm remained there for twelve years, and then removed to their present location, at 178 and 180 Fifth avenue. Finding the demand for their hats increasing from the residents of Brooklyn, Jersey City and surrounding suburbs, in 1876 they moved their store from 557 to 179 Broadway, near Cortlandt street, as their down-town store. [Illustration: FALL STYLES, 1885. N^o 52. N^o 52. N^o 53. N^o 53. PRICE OF SILK HATS, $8.00. In Ordering give Number.] [Illustration: FALL STYLES, 1885. N^o 56. N^o 54. N^o 55. N^o 55. STIFF HATS, IN BLACK AND BROWN, $5.00. In Ordering give Number.] [Illustration: FALL STYLES, 1885. N^o 57 STIFF. N^o 58 SOFT. N^o 59 SOFT. N^o 58 SOFT. SOFT HATS, IN BLACK AND BROWN. In Ordering give Number and state price of Hat desired.] [Illustration: FALL STYLES, 1885. N^o 63. N^o 60. N^o 61. N^o 62. SOFT POCKET-HATS, IN BLACK, BROWN AND BLUE. In Ordering give Number.]