A dress rule becomes a riotSourced
Straw-hat policing erupted two days early
New York once had an unwritten convention against men wearing straw hats after September 15. In 1922, youths seized and trampled hats, provoking fights and a wider riot with arrests and injuries. The disturbance began on September 13, two days before the supposed cutoff.
Those enforcing the seasonal custom did not even wait for its date.
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