Possible Clues:

• Like 13 down 26 down's curtain wrapped round endlessly funny hat
• Hear'say with schmaltz - old hat
• Hear hear! Something banal will do for headgear
• Try old hat, say, for this?
• Hat almost ridiculous, ripped on the outside
• Eccentric ornithologist's hat
• This hat we designed for town-crier
• Mostly wealthy but wearing damaged old hat
• Old hat said to irritate hard patch of skin
• Weary say, with sentimentality, old hat