Baron Kurtz
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Lester was by no means a small man, giving you an impression of the dimensions of this hat. As said by almost everyone else, a porkpie is all about the crease.
It is absolutely wonderful --- yet, in black, it would look a little 'religious' maybe?Spats McGee said:And that, billyspew, is one gorgeous porkpie!
But Wil, it does look better with a c-crown, no? I think when hats are bashed into a porkpie style they never look as sharp as the ones that are made that way.Wil Tam said:
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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Baron Kurtz said:A black porkpie looks religious? The Saturno is a long way from a porkpie, surely. [huh] I don't think i've ever seen a porkpie in a religious context.
Much as i disagree with the man - in fact totally - he has a good hat sense. Wish i could get away with this.
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I never have nor never will consider SRV's hat a pork-pie!
Good distinction.Yes, Bob, I'd say Stevie Ray's hat is vaquero style. It's much closer to Zorro than to Popeye Doyle (or Art Carney).
It seems to me that when a dress hat has the telescope crown, we tend to call it a porkpie. But the telescope bash has always been very popular in Westerns, which nobody calls a porkpie. So I would probably draw the distinction that way. A hat that could be a fedora, but has a telescope crown is a porkpie, while a cowboy hat with that crown style is not.
Besides Zorro and Mr. Vaughn, some famous telescope-crown Westerns have graced the heads of Clint Eastwood and Michael Landon. And, as noted above, pretty much any kid wearing a child's cowboy (or cowgirl) hat has a low telescope crown.