Brims - How do you like them

[gtdean48]

Here is a thread that never goes out of style! I like my brim down in the front, up in the back!

Down in the front (it is all about the swoop!), just a slight pencil roll style up in the back...

 

[BR Gordon]

I agree, for me, the brim has to be down. The swoop, as gtdean says, is what makes the fedora special.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

Honeymooner.

 

[David Conwill]

Honeymooner.

I indulge that look from time to time. It can be fun.

I have not mastered the vest-and-undershirt combo, however.

 

[TomS]

I find that I wear my 2" brims up more than down. Larger brims are always down (in front).

+1

 

[gtdean48]

Honeymooner.

That crown crease is the berries!

 

[splintercellsz]

Down in front, up in back, unless it is a homburg or Derby. Up-brimmed fedoras just don't agree with me.

 

[jlee562]

Depends on the hat. Open Road = brim up, always. Never looked right on me with the brim down. Mostly brim down otherwise.

 

[Rogera]

Down in the front (it is all about the swoop!), just a slight pencil roll style up in the back...

I love swoop!

 

[JTopenroad]

Brim up on my vintage ORs

Then again down on my Campdraft

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Vintage Milan hats look better up. Due to the shorter brim.
Shorter brims look better up.

 

[earl]

Down in the front (it is all about the swoop!), just a slight pencil roll style up in the back...

Pretty much how I always wear mine, (my hats are of the wider brim sort-2 1/2-2 3/4 inch-, though), but use a somewhat narrower angle of swoop in the front. Earl

 

[Benzadmiral]

I've yet to find a hat that I think looks good on me with the brim snapped up all around. Even my ORs and their clones I wear fedora-fashion, brim snapped down in front and curled up in back, whether I keep the cattleman crease or not.

My most recent OR-clone, a vintage Champ, has a 2" brim that came to me from eBay with the snapped-up classic OR shape. I'm still working on training it down into the kind of swoop I like, but of course there's a lot less brim to work with than on an Akubra Fed, and it's fairly stiff (though the crown was more easily shapeable).

 

[150719541]

Posted on another thread, perhaps appropriate here.

Several years ago, guitarist Carlos Santana took to wearing a fedora with a reverse brim - turned up in front and down in back:

Looks like what happened is that he initially made a mistake and put his hat on backwards and decided he liked it. For a while, Bailey Hats were offering the Carlos Santana "Smooth" fedora, and suggested you could "wear it like Carlos" with the same goofy brim treatment...

Nice look, a great folk ¡¡¡¡

 

[LeFonque]

As for me I have always been a brim up man. Except when I am in Rome.. go figure.

 

[Brando11]

Posted on another thread, perhaps appropriate here.

Several years ago, guitarist Carlos Santana took to wearing a fedora with a reverse brim - turned up in front and down in back:

Looks like what happened is that he initially made a mistake and put his hat on backwards and decided he liked it. For a while, Bailey Hats were offering the Carlos Santana "Smooth" fedora, and suggested you could "wear it like Carlos" with the same goofy brim treatment...

I passed by a large photo of Mexican laborers picking vegetables today. Guess how the men were wearing their straw hats- yep, down in back to protect their necks from the sun, up in front so they could see what they were picking. Carlos didn't make a mistake, I believe he was saluting some hard working brethren.

 

[JTopenroad]

Brim up.

Brim Down.

 

[hatophile]

Cool both ways JT!

 

[Alive'n'Amplified]

UP today!!

 

[seabass]

A & A
Very Cool Look & a Real Nice Milan !