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About Justice Scalia’s headgear

January 21, 2013 by Kevin C. Walsh

The twitterverse is alive with tweets about Justice Scalia’s headgear for today’s inauguration. At the risk of putting all the fun speculation to an end . . . The hat is a custom-made replica of the hat depicted in Holbein’s famous portrait of St. Thomas More. It was a gift from the St. Thomas More Society of Richmond, Virginia. We presented it to him in November 2010 as a memento of his participation in our 27th annual Red Mass and dinner.

[UPDATE: Many have asked for more details about Justice Scalia’s hat. It was made in Richmond, Virginia by milliner Camille Parham. Richmond lawyer and St. Thomas More Society executive committee member Stephen Reardon spearheaded our search for a “St. Thomas More hat” and presented the hat to Justice Scalia at the dinner after our Red Mass. A picture from the presentation and one from Justice Scalia’s visit earlier in the day to the University of Richmond School of Law are below.]

Posted in Catholic, Law | Tagged Holbein, More, Richmond, Scalia, Scalia's hat, St. Thomas More Society | 21 Comments

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on January 21, 2013 at 2:26 pm Josh Blackman (@JoshMBlackman)

That’s awesome. I blogged the side-by-side comparisons here: http://joshblackman.com/blog/2013/01/21/scalia-the-originalist-his-skullcap-is-a-replica-of-the-one-sir-thomas-more-wore/

There is definitely a resemblance.
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on January 21, 2013 at 3:04 pm Cheryl Boone-Delgado

Thanks for posting this! I’ve been looking at various images of the Sir Thomas More portrait; that was my first guess. But Scalia’s hat looks round, and surely More’s hat had corners? Just curious. I wouldn’t want to try to reproduce medieval headgear from a painting.
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on January 22, 2013 at 1:39 pm Vic

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