 Even so , the image stuck . The hat became a " trademark " in the public mind , assisting instant recognition , and was one of the most recognisable features of contemporaneous political cartoons . During the general election campaign in 1955 , when Eden was Prime Minister , he was presented with " an Eden hat " when he and Lady Eden ( he became a Knight of the Garter in 1954 ) visited the Lancashire hat @-@ making town of Atherton . At various points of the Suez Crisis the following year , cartoons depicted him in the same hat for which he had become known twenty years earlier . In one by Vicky for the New Statesman , a <unk> but otherwise barely clothed Eden was shown in the biblical Garden of Eden being tempted with an apple by a young Frenchwoman , presumably Marianne , in the guise of Eve . ( The allusion was to French pressure for joint action to reverse the unilateral nationalisation of the Suez Canal by Egyptian President Nasser . ) 
