 In the 1960s , when hats for men were becoming unfashionable , former diplomat Geoffrey McDermott asked , with evident disdain , " who wears an Anthony Eden hat today ? Only Mr Steptoe [ a character in a BBC television sitcom ] , Mr Enoch Powell and , rather curiously , [ Russian leader ] Mr Kosygin . And , of course , all those Carleton @-@ Browne characters at the F [ oreign ] O [ ffice ] " . Memories did linger , however . In 2006 , the son of a Wolverhampton ironmonger recalled a very wet evening on which Enoch Powell , the local Member of Parliament throughout the 1950s and 60s , required a new washer for a tap : " his moustache quivered with urgency and water streamed from the broad rim of his black Homburg hat . " 
