BanjoMerlin
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But, so well anyway.
Is this hat a FEDORA?
Is this hat a FEDORA?
Yowza.BanjoMerlin said:But, so well anyway.
Is this hat a FEDORA?
1961MJS said:Hi
I think that we need to first decide if a Homburg and a Fedora are different kinds of hats, OR if a Homburg is a type of Fedora. Good luck and good hunting.
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rlk said:
jimmy the lid said:I think the poll needs one more category:
"I know one when I see one"...
Mobile Vulgus said:Panda, I think that leather hat band instead of a ribbon says "western" to me instead of "fedora."
Mr. Gardner said:This is bordering on philosophical debate! I have only a few guidelines that I use. First I agree that a fedora is a "style" of hat. The material doesn't necessarily concern me as I think a Panama hat can be had in a fedora style. I would put porkpies in a sort of hybrid category as I feel that some sort of crease is important to a fedora look. I think a snap is required as well as a brim width within certain dimensions (2-3 inches or so). And finally my enemy, the stingy brim. About a year ago I began buying and wearing wide brim fedora type hats. This was my stylistic response to the gigantic trend (still going on) of the "California hat", "stingy brim", "trilby", or whatever. It's not that this style can't be worn well (see Leonard Cohen) but the predominance of them and the fact that there are now so many cheap ones being made, drove me nuts. So I have mounted a one man war (here in Austin TX at least) against the "Hipster hat" or "stingy brim" which in my mind is NOT a fedora.
Richard Warren said:Actually, if one may be permitted to say it, there is some merit in DAJE's definitions.
DAJE said:Me and my ilk? I have an ilk now?