Is a pork-pie a different category?

[immortaldiamond]

I love pork-pie hats, but I'm wondering whether it's really only strictly-speaking a stingy with an even, round dent. Can any fedora be 'pork-pied', or would you place them in a different category? Ideas?

 

[billyspew]

I think a prokpie is all about the crown shape. The brim can be any length - for instance I own an Optimo Porkpie which has a brim width os 2 3/8":

I think it it may however come down to personal opinion as I'm not entirley sure there is an official designation of what can and can't be a porkpie.

Bill

 

[gtdean48]

I always associate a stingy brim turned up all around along with the telescope type crease shown above as a "pork-pie".

 

[Carlisle Blues]

Stevie Ray Vaugh looks like a Pork Pie.

or Telescope with a large brim. [huh]

 

[Wil Tam]

it's a type of crease ... I've had some fedoras bashed into that style

porkpie bash

same hat different day with a c-crown dent

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[Feraud]

More pork -

It's all in the crown.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Jimmy Popeye Doyle. That say's pork-pie to me.

Rob

 

[Lefty]

The brim question is interesting. If the brim is up, it's a pork-pie for sure, if it's down, I'm going with porkedora.


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[Wil Tam]

The brim question is interesting. If the brim is up, it's a pork-pie for sure, if it's down, I'm going with porkedora.


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fer shure ... to me it doesn't look right with the front snapped down [huh]


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[gtdean48]

Stevie Ray Vaugh looks like a Pork Pie.

I never have nor never will consider SRV's hat a pork-pie!

 

[Viper Man]

fer shure ... to me it doesn't look right with the front snapped down [huh]

I agree and almost always wear mine with the brim up. However, it does look good with the brim down on this guy (Roy 'Little Jazz' Eldridge)...

 

[GWD]

Here is another thread on the porkpies.

 

[reetpleat]

fer shure ... to me it doesn't look right with the front snapped down [huh]


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[warmentrout]

When it comes to porkpies I'm a brim up guy. However I just got an old Dobbs off ebay. It has a 2 inch brim and a very low crown so I "porkpied" it and turned the brim down in front and I like it. No pics as of today but will post some soon

 

[WEEGEE]

Art Mint Pork Pie

 

[Torpedo]

More pork -

It's all in the crown.

Is that a two-toned hat? I have seen this in straw hats, I did not know it existed in felt, too.

 

[Torpedo]

Hi Weegee, that is a gorgeus colour combination. Light sage felt I guess?

 

[Feraud]

Is that a two-toned hat? I have seen this in straw hats, I did not know it existed in felt, too.

Yes it is two-toned.

 

[Spats McGee]

. . . . - for instance I own an Optimo Porkpie which has a brim width os 2 3/8":

And that, billyspew, is one gorgeous porkpie!

 

[Lefty]

Is that a two-toned hat? I have seen this in straw hats, I did not know it existed in felt, too.

Here's a thread showing older two toned hats. There's also one somewhere showing a few that Major Moore made.