 The journalist Malcolm Muggeridge , who was not an admirer of Eden , recalled that , among other qualities , " an elegant appearance and an earnest disposition ... equipped him for dazzling advancement ... An astrakhan collar became him . What came to be known as an Anthony Eden hat grew on heads like his " . In June 1938 , four months after Eden 's resignation from Neville Chamberlain 's Cabinet , the Member of Parliament and diarist " Chips " Channon noted that he had " doffed his bowler " to Chamberlain in St. James 's Park and that " everyone wears a bowler now ... [ S ] nce the Eden debacle black homburgs are " out " " . However , in August of that year , the British Minister in Prague , Basil Newton , wore " a black homburg of the kind made fashionable by Anthony Eden " to greet Lord Runciman on his arrival by train at Wilson station for talks with the Czechoslovak government . In 1939 , writing to a former classmate during a European tour , the future United States President John F. Kennedy remarked that he had not been doing much work , " but have been sporting around in my morning coat , my ' Anthony Eden ' black Homburg and white gardenia " . 
