Easter Sunday 1929 NYC (+ Fall Hats for '29)

[rlk]

 

[Mr. Lucky]

Like!

 

[Aureliano]

Sweet!

 

[gtdean48]

I like the crease job on the hat in lower right corner right above "on Easter" text....

 

[danofarlington]

Wow, they were really watching their hats in that year, weren't they? They're as enthusiastic about hats as we parvenues on TFL.

 

[fmw]

.......And today a small minority would be wearing hats and 99% of those hats would have something written on the front. Very interesting image.

 

[danofarlington]

.......And today a small minority would be wearing hats and 99% of those hats would have something written on the front. Very interesting image.

I always thought of hats in those years not as a style item, but something on the checklist of a man's uniform, no more notable than the particular kind of shoes they wore. Just so long as they had a hat of some kind, I thought, they felt completely dressed up. But from that article it seems they were very style-conscious about it, which surprises me. That's more in keeping with how we are deploying fedoras now--as a conscious style item, rather than being on the checklist of dressing up.

 

[Brad Bowers]

Society's going to heck in a handbasket for sure. Why, I remember when Easter Paraders wore nothing but top hats! What are all these whippersnappers thinking?

Brad

 

[mayserwegener]

Nice! What do they mean by silk hats? I don't see any Top hats so are they refering to a finish? I see a good number of Homburgs.

 

[dhermann1]

Interesting benchmark: 21% still wearing derbies. I think it would be interesting to try to get figures for the persistence (and averag age of wearers) for both derbies and boaters.

 

[mayserwegener]

Boaters would have been very popular in that time period. From peoples dress it looks like it wasn't a warm Easter Sunday although they say it was balmy.

 

[zetwal]

Society's going to heck in a handbasket for sure.

Heck? Where's that? I don't see it on the map.

 

[Fletch]

Rules were rules...

Wow, they were really watching their hats in that year, weren't they? They're as enthusiastic about hats as we parvenues on TFL.

Surely this was a trade magazine. General interest publications rarely covered clothing at all, outside of the more novel women's styles.

Boaters would have been very popular in that time period. From peoples dress it looks like it wasn't a warm Easter Sunday although they say it was balmy.

In New York, especially, boaters were never worn before Memorial Day - whatever the weather. Only in the South did they come out at Easter time.

 

[rlk]

Hats for Fall 1929

Nice! What do they mean by silk hats? I don't see any Top hats so are they refering to a finish? I see a good number of Homburgs.

speaking of Homburgs...

 

[T Rick]

That is a great find RLK. Very interesting view into the industry in Spring of '29. I wonder what the picture would have been like the following year, a half year after the stock market crash that signaled the beginning of the Great Depression?

I like the crease job on the hat in lower right corner right above "on Easter" text....

Looks like sort of an abbreviated Gus, doesn't it?

 

[mayserwegener]

In New York, especially, boaters were never worn before Memorial Day - whatever the weather. Only in the South did they come out at Easter time.

Thanks! Wasn't sure of the switch over date.

 

[monbla256]

It would be interesting to see if ANYTHING like the crowd shown in the photo would be found out on 5th Ave. today in the 21st Century I realize we would NOT see much in the way of hats for sure, but I wonder if we would even see 1/2 the number of folks out

Onward thru the Fog

 

[suitedcboy]

The center dent sure ruled the day!

 

[Mobile Vulgus]

The center dent sure ruled the day!

Remember, this was 1929 way before the big pinch front, wide brim fedora craze of the 40s.

 

[rlk]

Remember, this was 1929 way before the big pinch front, wide brim fedora craze of the 40s.

Which had happened before in the mid-1920's and began again in the mid-late 1930's...