Abstract
The article examines the wearing of festive headgear as a way of understanding contemporary organizational rituals, pointing to analogous historical practice, which reveals the way that power is deployed while seeming to be relaxed. It categorizes the display behaviour associated with this apparent suspense of organizational power through four types of headgear and will trace the historical antecedents of such behaviour. It goes on to say something about the organizing of social interaction and fun and the deployment of the body in contemporary organizations. The headgear I shall consider includes paper crowns, Father Christmas hats, tinsel halos and reindeer antlers.
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