I work in Soho in London, and for a while now have been disturbed by the number of trilbies being worn by media herberts. Just like “the rudest horse in the world“, (although not now “sat down heavily on the cake”, which yields 2 results – one being this blog and the other being a LibDem blog which has been aggregating content… which is something I don’t completely understand but have resolved to ask Sal about.) searching for the exact phrase “ironic trilby”, yielded 0 results.
Although maybe the reason is that these people aren’t wearing them ironically. Or maybe my understanding of irony is way off the mark.