1st Day Royal Ascot, Morning Dress code for Royal Enclosure, with 7&5/8 Black Silk Top Hat, with Burgundy Silk grosgrain binding.
Back herringbone morning coat, pink winchester shirt, pink "pink" button-hole (similar to carnation) burgundy with blue background tie, plain burgungy pocket...
Would say personal preference, many various ins-and-outs with fashion and styles over the decades, nay centuries.
Personally I tilt only at times when wearing my smoking cap, fez, Glengarry Cap, boater or my trilbowler
I don't tilt my: Topper, Bowler, Pith, Trilby Panama, Optimo Panama...
Yes can be indoors though traditionally only "Formal" hats would be worn by ladies indoors.
Unless you were "downstairs" when said people would wear a bonnet as chambermaids e.t.c.
Wearing a hat was inside was normally a requirement of downstairs or other working classes as they needed...
Are you 7&1/8 UK or US. If US7&1/8 then have a very nice 6&1/4 crown with very famboyant bell curve and beautiful saddle brim that is right up your street. Don't have 6&1/2 right now.
Those firms are a couple of different dealers :o
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Most modern "silk looking" hats are made from "Melusine" fine fur felt, gives a sheen similar to silk plush, but if you compare it with a real one then there is no comparison. Real silk wins no questions asked.
There are a number of other "silk" type plushes available, most with a rayon pile...
Actually I would go a Bombay Bowler Pith over a standard Trilby/ Fedora Panama, if you requirement is to protect the back of you head and neck.
The Panama I may consider would be a wide brimmed plantation style. Which would be good but I still like pith as a light weight ( thoughmore heavy...
Will get full dimensions later.
I don' use the word stingy myself. As this is a based on the trilby rather than fedora ( the difference being that a fedora has a wider brim ) . Fedora wearers, such as your goodselves may like a larger brim, but for trilbys this is well withing standard size...
Top hat only goes with tail coats ( i.e. Morning Dress or White Tie) , not black tie jacket. Neither does the standard bowler go with Black Tie , as bowler is normal Day/city wear or riding wear. But the Formal Cambridge Bowler can be used.
This style brings it out as rigid shell for semi...
Can do most styles, merely an adaption of the crown. Without side dents would be a more Homburg style crown, hence what i would call a "Hombowler" :D
With the tighter pinch is just as easy just a different block to do it on. Though I prefer a thicker pince for formal style myself.
The...
Thanks,
There may have been similar designs in history, though the name Trilbowler is I believe unique to me! :)
I am pushing it (the black version) as a new "semi-formal" wear for Black-Tie events.
The Homburg or the Cambridge bowler were the only hats in history, apart from the...
1st run of the New "Trilbowler" ( pronounced Trill -be- ola)
Me ( minus the Goatee!) _ I know, I know, I think I must Grow it back!
Crown:
Front:
Left:
Right:
Back:
So the front looks similar to a fedora/trilby crown as one walks towards, but when i walk...
Where you willl come unstuck is the brim. Homburgs have a brim that is usually uniform all around. Bowlers/Toppers have different curls, and more flattened brim edge, hence it no longer will be a bolwer or a Homburg.
I have made a Trilbowler (pronounced Tril-b-ola) which is ineffect a trilby...
No difference, mearly the Contex of being used - One can feel Jaunty riding a Horse with or without a bowler.
How Januty one is, could be greatened by the thrill of the hat, but also in addition being on the horse or / horse & carriage.
So is it the hat or the horse that is making one...
Hehe such are the fun things in life .... Where I live it is Ascot ( hence my Compay: Ascot Top Hats Ltd) if one is in attendance of Royal Ascot, remember to pronounce it correctly as "Ass-kut" , and not as most people pronounce it "Ass-cot".
Coke = William Coke II, later the Earl of Leicester: commissioned the hat
Locks = Hatter who designed it
Bowler = Famaily of Felters/ Hat manufacture on south of river, who made it
Derby = Edward Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby (1752-1834), founded "The Derby" race, The Bowler became common wear...
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