Wearing a Doiby and a One-Piece

Defense attorney: "... Kindly speak English and drop the vernacular."

Curley: "Vernaculah? That's a doiby!"

"Doiby's," or derbys, also known as bowler hats, billycocks, and Bob hats (if you happen to be from Britain), became popular with the working class beginning in the second half of the 1800s. Eventually their popularity spread to the middle and upper classes as well, and are de riguer in nearly any depiction of life up to the 1920s or '30s. You may recall the following photo taken outside the old Los Angeles indoor velodrome circa 1900, where the large variety of chapeaus does include the humble "doiby":

Anywaaaay, "The derby hat is making a more representative appearance in our midst. We are not certain whether to point with pride or view with alarm. There is a feeling that our Philadelphia visitors are perhaps the leaders in the invasion and, in view of recent disclosures, we are inclined to be suspicious of Philadelphia. But a log of eminently respectable business men from New York and other points are topping their belfries with these rigid lids and we are again becoming accustomed to them. The derby hat is not without its friends and defenders. But we draw the line when we find a guy in a derby hat and a one-piece bathing suit riding a bicycle over some of our mountain trails."

Of all the things you might see while riding the trails up in the mountains these days, a guy in a doiby and one-piece bathing suit will likely not make the the list, but in 1924 when that little bit of commentary was written in the Los Angeles Times... 

maybe you would have.