The residents of Tyne and Wear woke today to discover that Antony Gormley's colossal statue the Angel of the North was wearing a Christmas hat.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-46670458
This seems to be strikingly similar to the cautionary cone chapeau traditionally associated with the Duke of Wellington, seated on his horse Copenhagen, at Glasgow's Exchange Square.
The video clip on the newspaper web page below, circulated online in 2013, might, possibly, go some way to explaining the mystery behind the Angel of the North's Christmas look - it's just a matter of statuary interpretation.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/video-spoof-film-shows-how-2800138