Grandeur et décadence d'un chapeau (1907)

• 56%
• 1907
• Comedy

A lady and her husband leave their home and go to a fashionable millinery, where the lady buys a beautiful hat. From there they go to a restaurant and seat themselves for a meal. The waiter, in serving the soup, stumbles, with the result that he spills the contents of the tureen on the lady's new hat. She is mortified and enraged, and her husband immediately halls a cab and takes her home, where on reaching her room she throws the hat to the ground and falls to weeping. A servant enters, and seeing the mined headgear on the ground, adopts it as her own. She fixes it up to suit her taste and is next seen wearing it as she meets her lover, the policeman. Together they go to a park and seat themselves on a bench, the servant placing her hat beside her. While the couple are busy, a very stout gentleman comes along, seats himself on the hat and proceeds to read his newspaper. As soon as the servant discovers this she is filled with rage and departs, leaving the hat there. An unfortunate woman filled with liquor and very unsteady now takes possession of it and goes to a saloon. Here she is made sport of and the hat suffers at the hands of her tormentors. Emerging from the resort, she staggers near a lake and finally throws the hat in. It floats to the other side, where a fisherman pulls it up with his line and places it beside him. A small boy now conies along whistling and, seeing the hat, begins to kick it through the streets. The final resting place of this piece of headgear of fashionable descent is now on a pile of garbage beside some ash cans, where dogs come to sniff for bones.