mercuryfelt76
One of the Regulars
- Messages
- 209
- Location
- London, England
Auld Edwardian: thank you so much for the link and your advice. Very helpful. I knew that joining the Lounge would be a good move. I do already wear double cuffs and have a collection of cufflinks.
Feltfan: I know that the bowler was a common hat in Edwardian times but here in Britain the last people to legitimately wear it as a "uniform" were the bank managers of the 1970s and they were all from private education. I watched a programme from 1972 which suggested that our bowler hat-wearing bankers were seen around the world as a bit old fashioned and stuffy. The news reporter tried to interview a few but they were reluctant to engage and spoke like privately educated men. I know the bowler wasn't originally an upper class hat - you're right that the homburg and top hat were. But in England people associate the bowler with that last generation of upper class bankers - they didn't wear homburgs. But even when I'm wearing a homburg people still think it's a bowler. Sadly too many people are ignorant towards hats and whether or not the bowler was an upper class hat, over here the general public make that inaccurate assumption. But many people compliment me too. I suppose you have to take the rough with the smooth.
Feltfan: I know that the bowler was a common hat in Edwardian times but here in Britain the last people to legitimately wear it as a "uniform" were the bank managers of the 1970s and they were all from private education. I watched a programme from 1972 which suggested that our bowler hat-wearing bankers were seen around the world as a bit old fashioned and stuffy. The news reporter tried to interview a few but they were reluctant to engage and spoke like privately educated men. I know the bowler wasn't originally an upper class hat - you're right that the homburg and top hat were. But in England people associate the bowler with that last generation of upper class bankers - they didn't wear homburgs. But even when I'm wearing a homburg people still think it's a bowler. Sadly too many people are ignorant towards hats and whether or not the bowler was an upper class hat, over here the general public make that inaccurate assumption. But many people compliment me too. I suppose you have to take the rough with the smooth.
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