Fedora Hats

[Feelslikefar]

Was watching the 'Maltese Falcon' for the upteenth time and a scene jogged a thought.
The character Ruth Wonderly was describing to Sam Spade what a man looked like.
'full faced, bushy eyebrows, Tall, etc. and he wore a GREY HAT.

A Grey Hat.

This was back in the day when the color and style of a hat was part of a man's description.
If you were a man in the city, you never left home without a Fedora.
Right or left tilt or just straight on. It was important for the type of person you wanted to project.

Bogart's Fedora was the normal 2 1/2 inch brim and always a right tilt.
Sinatra often worn a 2 inch brim, which was uncommon. Almost a Pork Pie type.
A 3 inch or more brim was very uncommon and mostly used with a Zoot Suit.

All of my Fedoras are the 2 and 1/2 type, just different crowns, ribbon and color.
Felt in winter and Straw for the Summer.

With winter coming up, I'll wear them more often.

Hat, Watch and handkerchief and I'm ready for the day.

I know of at least one member of our group, @horseless carriage , who still wears this type of hat. Any others?

 

[jerry old]

I thought they were great, sorry they disappeared-not that I would wear one everywhere, just now and then.

 

[horseless carriage]

Bogart's Fedora was the normal 2 1/2 inch brim and always a right tilt.
Sinatra often worn a 2 inch brim, which was uncommon. Almost a Pork Pie type.
A 3 inch or more brim was very uncommon and mostly used with a Zoot Suit.

A fedora hat & Zoot suit!

 

[Aunt Bea]

My stepfather always wore a grey fedora on those rare occasions when he dressed up for town meetings, funerals, etc...

He also had a downgraded old battered and tattered grey fedora with a sweat stained headband that he wore when he was out doing odd jobs, running errands, etc...

 

[Shalimar]

I love fedoras and I have several.

 

[hollydolly]

I wish fedora hats would come back for men...and that men would dress in suits as they did when I was a kid... but then I thought women looked better in dresses too back in the day but I wouldn't want to start wearing them now , just too uncomfortable..

 

[Laurie]

I have at least a dozen not including my straw hats, one blue one brown, for the odd sunny day.

I never venture beyond my yard without one.

Not all fedoras, I do have a couple of tweet caps and a waxes cotton one for inclement weather.

 

[Fyrefox]

I’ve read that part of the reason hats almost vanished was that climate control in cars improved, and a hat was no longer as necessary to keep warm. Beyond this, hats were a style statement. JFK had great hair, however, and projected a handsomeness and youth/vigor/virility thing through it. My father never bought into this, and wore a hat to and from work for the entirety of his career…

 

[Paco Dennis]

I wore one like this with a white tuxedo while performing in show type band. The girls seemed to like it.

 

[Ceege]

From Bogart to Cary Grant to William Powell .....
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[Shero]

Between us my husband and I have six fedora hats, we share! Did you know: The fedora first appeared in 1882 as a female hat. That particular year there was the first production of a play by French author Victorien Sardou named “Fédora”.

He wrote the part of Princess Fédora Romanoff, a title role, for then famous French actress Sarah Bernhardt.

Ladies how to wear your fedora

 

[Gary O']

From Bogart to Cary Grant to William Powell

Don't forget Indiana Jones




Me?
Full beards and fedoras don't go, seems

But

If I ever become a private eye;

 

[horseless carriage]

I wish fedora hats would come back for men...and that men would dress in suits as they did when I was a kid... but then I thought women looked better in dresses too back in the day but I wouldn't want to start wearing them now , just too uncomfortable..

Maybe you could convince himself to don a fedora, then you could dress in the Jackie role.


But don't let him go for the straw version!

 

[hollydolly]

No thanks asI said previously I wouldn't want to dress in the ''jackie'' role...

 

[Victor]

I wear a brown old fedora bought used. Many compliments. A few of the photos posted are probably not.

 

[CinnamonSugar]

Love a hat on those who can carry it off. I cannot wear hats, I just look ridiculous If u ever want clean, cheap fun, we’ll go hat shopping. You won’t want for laughs. Especially if they are the frothy, over-the-top creations like the ladies wear to th the Kentucky Derby

 

[charry]

I love all Hats !! On guys and ladies.....

 

[Llynn]

I own two vintage fedoras which I wear as the mood strikes me.

 

[horseless carriage]

Beyond this, hats were a style statement. JFK had great hair, however, and projected a handsomeness and youth/vigor/virility thing through it.

JFK still liked to wear a fedora though. You see JFK's shirt collar, it's a style known as a spearpoint. I love it.

 

[horseless carriage]

I wish fedora hats would come back for men...and that men would dress in suits as they did when I was a kid... but then I thought women looked better in dresses too back in the day but I wouldn't want to start wearing them now , just too uncomfortable..

Fedora hats can go with a casual appearance just as much as a suit can.
The hat is bespoke, as is the shirt, I have quite a collection of both.

 

[Snow74]

My father was 6,3 and wore a Fedora along with a long trench coat..he actually looked like a Mafia guy! He was handsome…

 

[horseless carriage]

My father was 6,3 and wore a Fedora along with a long trench coat..he actually looked like a Mafia guy! He was handsome…

Trenchcoats and fedora hats do have a gangster reputation, not that I could intimidate anyone.

 

[hollydolly]

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Trenchcoats and fedora hats do have a gangster reputation, not that I could intimidate anyone.

my father had that trench-coat..same colour in the 50's, he was wearing it after my mother and he left the registry office on the day they were married, and I have the only existing photo to this day..

 

[oldiebutgoody]

I wore one like this with a white tuxedo while performing in show type band. The girls seemed to like it.


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Aha! The Al Capone look.

Big Al was noted for wearing white fedoras. I have read where in Chicago any man who dared wear a white hat was arrested in his time as it was deemed a slight of some kind towards cops if he wore one.

 

[oldiebutgoody]

Al Capone in a youthful mugshot or fake news?