Movie hats

[T Jones]

Cornel Wilde , "The Big Combo", 1955

 

[Doctor Jones]

A shout out to Annie Hardinge, costumer of Magpie Murders, for hand-bashing the hats.

For me it ruins period films to see modern mass-produced machine-shaped fedoras.

Atticus Pund's hat (left) is really cool and adds much to his character.

 

[T Jones]

Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney, "Laura". Also gotta add this femme fatale, Ava Gardner, "The Killers".

 

[T Jones]

Glen Ford, "Framed" (1947). With Janice Page, Barry Sullivan, and Edgar Buchanan. Not the top of the best of the film noirs but it's still up there and entertaining.

 

[hambone71]

Glen Ford, "Framed" (1947). With Janice Page, Barry Sullivan, and Edgar Buchanan. Not the top of the best of the film noirs but it's still up there and entertaining. View attachment 641500 View attachment 641501

Ford looks pretty dapper here. Quite different from the sweaty and dusty ol' cowboy characters I'm accustomed to seeing him play.

 

[Bamaboots]

Dear John was Slim Pickens favorite horse that he's riding here in these two pics w/o losing his hat.

From an unknown movie.

From 1955's Santa Fe Passage

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Dear John was Slim Pickens favorite horse that he's riding here in these two pics w/o losing his hat.

Several WWII vets who grew up in rodeo competitions came home & got their start in the booming motion picture business as extras because they knew how to ride. Ben Johnson was another one.

 

[Edward]

A shout out to Annie Hardinge, costumer of Magpie Murders, for hand-bashing the hats.

For me it ruins period films to see modern mass-produced machine-shaped fedoras.

Atticus Pund's hat (left) is really cool and adds much to his character.

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It definitely adds a layer of authenticity. I can suspend disbelief to a great extent, but there's no denying when you see a picture than nails those sorts of details, the whole thing just *looks* immediately right. Wardrobe rather than costume, so to speak. I think it helps a lot too if a particular actor is comfortable in period clothing and wears it like it's just their clothes. Dicaprio is one performer I think really convinces in mid-century set pieces for that reason, he just looks so at home in the wardrobe. It'd be interesting to show a bunch of variations on period-set films to people not into the vintage thing and see whether and what they spotted.