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Talkingfox remembers...I thought this was a ridiculous fad, but one time in 1997 I was at a bar on St. Patricks ... More »
Posted on 10/12/07
Nostalgia for the simpler times of childhood struck Generation X hard. Club kids in the 90’s seemed to have a need for the trappings of childhood innocence. And nothing stood taller in that pantheon than Dr. Seuss’s Cat in the Hat.
The bewhiskered mischief-maker with the wide cravat and the red-and-white striped hat came from Dr. Seuss’s very first story, 1955’s The Cat in the Hat, and remained popular with kids through the decades. Whimsically destructive, friendly and oblivious, the Cat loomed larger than life. Rave culture demanded something outsized, and the feline prankster with his whimsical headgear fit the bill.
Towering over everything, the huge hats bobbed their way through clubs and raves and sauntered down city streets, transforming big kids into overgrown kiddies. “A teenage club-kid in a towering hat – What could be sillier, tell me, than that?”
