Is your fedora tipped?

[GentlemanFarmer]

Level

I just can't pull it off, that rakish tilt to one side or the other. Is that where they get the term "level-headed"?

 

[Alon]

I think it's safe to say the tilters have majority.

 

[J. M. Stovall]

Always tilted...always.

 

[Duck]

I usally wear mine tilted, except cowboy hats and my JPD Raider.[huh]

 

[thunderw21]

Usually tipped to the left. Never the right.

 

[metropd]

Hmmm... I almost always tip mine to the right.

 

[Sefton]

I have a book on grooming that was published during WWII that says something like "a man's hat should always have a slight tilt to one side. It should never sit straight on his head like a lid on a jar." Whatever works for you I say. Some of mine don't fit right tilted although when I do tilt, I tilt the Northern California way...to the left!

 

[astaire]

call me silly, i tilt mine to the left so ladies can view the bow... The first thing my wife comment when i get a new hat is how well the bow is done on it.

But either way, tilted always look better.

 

[Mr. Lucky]

“Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.” - Sinatra

 

[metropd]

In my opinion men with fuller faces, squarer jaw bones, or larger foreheads look better with it flat on their head or with very little tilt where men with narrower faces can pull of quite rakish angles.

 

[fatwoul]

I think another reason I am reluctant to tilt my hat, besides the fact that I'm just not a jaunty person, is that these days it could mean something, depending which way you tilt it. You know, like which ear you have earrings, and what pictures you get tattooed.

I'd hate to end up in an awkward situation just because someone made an assumption about me based on my hat angle.

 

[Sefton]

I've never heard that before...what does the left or right tilt signal? Is this something new? An English only thing or are you pulling our (cuffed and pleated) collective legs?[huh]

 

[kbadr]

I tilt my hat to the right, because I've seen Bogart do it. If anyone wants to make any assumptions about me based on that it should either be that a) I know how to dress or b) I respect Bogart's style.

I've been getting quite a few compliments on my off-the-rack Beaver hat lately. One man stopped me on the plane today and said "That's a nice hat! Is it beaver?" Make a statement, boys! Let's show the world how to dress!

 

[K.D. Lightner]

I certainly wear my fedoras tipped. Sometimes I put them on dead center straight, but they end up tipped.

Most women who wear fedoras seem to have them at an angle, sometimes very much so.

I tip mine to the left.

karol

 

[fatwoul]

I've never heard that before...what does the left or right tilt signal? Is this something new? An English only thing or are you pulling our (cuffed and pleated) collective legs?[huh]

No I'm not saying it does mean something, I'm saying it could. I have no idea. And since I don't really suit the jaunty thing anyway, I see little reason to try it, only to decide I like it, and then twenty years down the line discover I've been unwittingly announcing myself as possessing a particular "social preference". I have no issue with those that do, you understand, but I'd like to avoid any false advertising in such matters. lol

 

[metropd]

No I'm not saying it does mean something, I'm saying it could. I have no idea. And since I don't really suit the jaunty thing anyway, I see little reason to try it, only to decide I like it, and then twenty years down the line discover I've been unwittingly announcing myself as possessing a particular "social preference". I have no issue with those that do, you understand, but I'd like to avoid any false advertising in such matters. lol

That thinking is way overboard......If Tim Gunn wore a fedora tipped to the left to a Pet Shop Boys concert while driving in a Jetta eating strawberry pancakes with the Price of Whales and you wore the same fedora to the left walking down Castro, that same fedora with the same tilt would not be interpreted as "false advertising". Just the rest would.lol

 

[fatwoul]

That thinking is way overboard...

I think whether or not my thinking was overboard is relative, since we are all hanging out on a forum dedicated to the earth-shatteringly, devastatingly important issue of...hats. lol

 

[metropd]

I think whether or not my thinking was overboard is relative, since we are all hanging out on a forum dedicated to the earth-shatteringly, devastatingly important issue of...hats. lol

If hats can be one of the variables that motivates me and other people to have a productive impact on society and leads us to fulfilling prosperous lives than they are essentially an earth-shatteringly, devastatingly important issue.

 

[fatwoul]

I'm not sure how a hat can affect one's life like that, unless you mean someone on the street with a flute and an upturned cap full of change. Their hat probably affects their lives a great deal.

And yes, that is back on topic, because it is a hat that is tipped...

...a full 180 degrees.

 

[J. M. Stovall]

I don't see how any of these things could be negative:

jaun¬?ty (j?¥n'tē, j?§n'-)
adj., -ti¬?er, -ti¬?est.
1. Having a buoyant or self-confident air.
2. Crisp and dapper in appearance.