Is your fedora tipped?

[metropd]

...a full 180 degrees.

fftopic: quite witty

Yes I wear my hat tilted to the right. One day I switched to the left and was walking past Patrick James Menswear in San Diego and an old black man said" dats a bad brim baby but tilt that sucka to the right" From then on I have always worn my fedoras on the right.

 

[Sefton]

"Whadda youse mean my hats on funny...?!"

 

[metropd]

"Whadda youse mean my hats on funny...?!"

Great picture! Sefton it looks great tilted that way!:eusa_clap I just got in a habbit of tilting it right there is no "right" angle to wear it.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

I can't say i've ever put the hat on in any systematic way. Sometimes it's tilted, sometimes straight across. No plan to it, that's just how it ended up . . .

bk

 

[dostacos]

I think it tends to be on straight, I have tried tipped but it feels funny so I end up putting back on center.

 

[Alon]

If the angle of your hat has any connotation(s), as fatwoul suggests, I think it is that a leveled hat implies practicality, businessy, or to-the-point attitude, and an angled hat daring, jaunty, or artsie.

At least those are some adjectives that enter my mind when I see one of the two styles.

 

[Sefton]

Left,right,straight;as long as the fedora suits your face it'll look o.k.
Now if we were talking about ball caps it's a different story. You put one on your head backwards or sideways you immediately assume the guise of the typical lout: Originally Genus Americanus.He is now known to populate every inhabitable land mass and is found among the indigenious lifeforms there. [huh]

 

[J.T.Marcus]

Now if we were talking about ball caps it's a different story. You put one on your head backwards or sideways you immediately assume the guise of the typical lout...

I don't think I've ever worn a ball cap backwards. I have, however, worn a FEDORA BACKWARDS! I was taking pictures with an old single lens reflex camera, and the brim kept getting in the way. It wouldnt snap up, so I turned the hat around backwards. It worked great!

 

[fatwoul]

I don't think I've ever worn a ball cap backwards. I have, however, worn a FEDORA BACKWARDS! I was taking pictures with an old single lens reflex camera, and the brim kept getting in the way. It wouldnt snap up, so I turned the hat around backwards. It worked great!

Yes thats the same problem I have. It isn't normally an issue unless I am using flash, but if I am using an older, much larger camera like my F2the brim is a problem. My Federation flips up nicely, so long as I remember to put the brim down again afterwards. My Fieldmaster has to come off altogether, since it does not have a snap brim. The backwards thing wouldn't help with that hat, since the brim is downturned at the back too. lol

I regret to say that I have worn all sorts of caps backwards, for the same reason, but I have never - ever - done it to be cool.

 

[deanglen]

Yes thats the same problem I have. It isn't normally an issue unless I am using flash, but if I am using an older, much larger camera like my F2the brim is a problem. My Federation flips up nicely, so long as I remember to put the brim down again afterwards. My Fieldmaster has to come off altogether, since it does not have a snap brim. The backwards thing wouldn't help with that hat, since the brim is downturned at the back too. lol

I regret to say that I have worn all sorts of caps backwards, for the same reason, but I have never - ever - done it to be cool.

Hollywood cameramen in the early days wore newboy caps and turned them backwards while they shot film due, of course, to using the eyepiece on the camera while they cranked away in the pre-sound days. Oh, my, another plus in the cap category!

dean

 

[Wesne]

I wear mine pretty level from side to side (I don't really consciously try; that's just the way it fits) but if I'm feeling jaunty I may tip it back a little farther on my head. When taking pictures with a flash atop my camera I'll either let the flash push down the front of the brim (which on the Resistol I've been wearing is just over 2 inches and quite soft, allowing for this) or, on occasion, snap up the brim in the front.

 

[pgoat]

Mine is always tipped a bit over the left eye....when I was a long haired youth my hair always fell that way, so this is the closest I get to that these days!

If it gets too hot I get temporary relief by pushing it back off the face a bit -

a little warm= Frank Sinatra semi-tilt;

way too hot for a hat but too lazy or manually occupied to remove and hold hat= Paul Simonon/Two-tone bands back o' head rake.

Topper had it down, too:

 

[John in Covina]

TILT!

I will wear it either way Straight and Level or sometimes tilted down on the right. It depends on my mood.

 

[Matt Deckard]

A little to the left today

 

[OldSkoolFrat]

Tilted just a bit to the left, my evening commute is in a generally North by North West, and wearing it that way helps block out the rays of the setting sun. Generally not tilted back far at all for the same reason.

 

[Dixon Cannon]

I just wear my hats. Sometimes tipped. Sometimes level. Sometimes cocked back. Sometimes low. (But never brim up!) It all depends on the mood and the day.

-dixon cannon

 

[johnnycanuck]

In one word YES. It just adds character.

Johnny

 

[OldSkoolFrat]

Then again the Akubra Casual that I just un-boxed looks and seems best tilted to the right.

It was a birthday gift, had to try it on early as I will be in Las Vegas for my birthday!!

 

[Snazzy]

I wear it straight, but just because it feels right that way. I tried the tilted, but with my Federation the crown just seems to tall to be tilted. Maybe I'm just not used to it yet, but straight is the way for me.

Unless I'm sitting at a bar or some high top table...then I tend to sit it back on my head a bit with a slight tilt. Always wondered why I saw guys do that, but it just seems right [huh]

 

[Noindex]

I wear mine with a slight tilt to the left. I never really thought about it until reading this thread, but it has never occurred to me to tilt it to the right. Left tilt simply feels more natural I guess.