Of course, no one was going to show up to Studio 54 not looking their best.
However, the style of the hat came to be in somewhat of a roundabout way.
“Funny thing about that pillbox hat,” Halston would later recall.

“It was made too small for her … but Mrs. Kennedy wore it anyway.
“He’d say, ‘All right, I got it.’
He put [a design] on you.

And it danced with you.
His clothes danced with you.
We were joined at the hip from then on.”