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Mr E Train said:Hey, Roy Rogers was real!
Roy Rodgers is my Drink, (And a Miami Vice)...
Roy Rodgers - Cherry and Coke
Mr E Train said:Hey, Roy Rogers was real!
Mr E Train said:Hey, Roy Rogers was real!
Speedbird said:Sorry Mr E Train ... no disrespect intended ... I should have held at the Lone Ranger ... that'll teach me to be a smart alec!
PS I like your signature ... I've been wondering where it's from?
StetsonHomburg said:Ha ha, Well.... At least Churchill is Real. :cool2:
Speedbird said:...The beauty of a forum like this is people will take inspiration from Hollywood and then develop a more accurate account from learning as they participate. So all hail the screen legends and welcome the opportunity to learn more and do it better!
Edward said:And at least Indy, fictional or no, was a nice person - something to which Churchill can in no way lay claim. But that another argument for another day, suffice it to say I wear my Homergs despite, not because of, Churchill.
Yeps said:I got my homburg because of the new sherlock holmes movie, then realized he was not wearing a homburg, but the hat has stayed as my signature look anyway.
Mr E Train said:A homburg is definitely the type of hat I could see Holmes wearing, although I'm not sure if he ever did. What was he wearing in the movie, a bowler?
:eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clapBurton said:MisterCairo, I get what you are saying and agree. This is a pertinent topic.
In 1982 I went on my first expedition to New Guinea. I wore a brown fedora type hat that was sold by the "old" Banana Republic company. Upon my return the hit movie playing that summer was Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark. I was critical of the movie at that time but years and many more adventures of my own now love the IJ series. I have had moments though when I wish the movies had never been made like a trip to Petra years ago where I remember approaching a group of tourists and having then break into the IJ theme song. Good fun really.
MisterCairo said::eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap
There is good and bad in anything becoming "iconic". On the one hand, in this case the Indy movies showcased the styles of the 30s to a broad audience, many of whom joyously adopted the look.
On the other hand, it didn't become "the fashion", so to many the look looks like an affectation. Hence the Indy "name calling".
cptjeff said:According to behind the scenes info posted in the sherlock holmes thread, it's a Lock and Co homburg that was intentionally abused.
cptjeff said:Why not do it? If it's not to your liking you can change it back yourself, it's not as if it'll permanently damage the felt.
Speedbird said:If that really is a Lock & Co Homburg, it has been well and truly abused!
http://www.lockhatters.co.uk/Fedoras__Homburg___Pork_Pie-Homburg-P58.aspx
Yeps said:I think that the thread on the subject established that it would be nearly impossible to take out the curl so completely.
Yeps said:This was the subject of quite a debate (part of the reason I joined up on the lounge), because he appeared to be wearing a fedora which everyone said was too modern for the 1890s, but, it also kind of looked like a really beat up homburg which would have been period. However, a Montgomery Ward & co catalog popped up on another thread from 1890, and there was an illustration of a hat called "the Fedora" which looked just like Holmes's hat.
When I was looking at it, it looked like it would be more easy to abuse a hat of that shape and softness into the hat that Holmes wears then a homburg. Also, it is just cool because it is a hat called a fedora in 1890.mayserwegener said:This hat has a lot of curl. Similar to a Homburg but doesn't appear to have the typical height or taper of a period Homburg (see Edward VII). Not sure there was a strict definition for a Fedora (soft felt - less formal) or European styles didn't always translate properly across the pond.
Yeps said:When I was looking at it, it looked like it would be more easy to abuse a hat of that shape and softness into the hat that Holmes wears then a homburg. Also, it is just cool because it is a hat called a fedora in 1890.