New trend in movie fedoras...?

[Craig Robertson]

I'm not sure this is a new style bash, or a reference to an older style...but I haven't seen it before. It is essentially a snap-brim fedora with the brim down in the front and the back up. Then the sides are curled up...not a pencil curl, but looser.
I noticed it first in Mummy 3...Brendon Frazier's character Rick wears a fedora bashed that way in one scene. Then I noticed it again in "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day" where Lee Pace's character Michael wears one at the very end of the movie.
I apologize for not having images to show you.
Is this a new bash, or just something recycled from and older style?

 

[Colby Jack]

Thats a good question...I bet Art Fawcett can answer that question though...I believe he even provided some of the hats for the Mummy 3....

 

[J. M. Stovall]

You can pretty much bet that hats have been creased pretty much every way possible in the golden era. The more I look at vintage photos the more I realized this. I'm sure some wardrobe person saw a photo and was inspired. Who knows, maybe he same person worked on both of those movies too.

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

So it's pretty much a brim treatment you're referring to right?

I noticed the brim-up-on-the-sides thing pretty prominently in the third Indiana Jones movie. Makes the hat have a more western flare to it. More adventurous than just formal.

I have my Stratoliner brim curled up on the sides and I love it that way. I don't have the original slim box which, ostensibly, was designed to maintain that brim shape, but I mimic the look anyway. Same on a couple of my Open Roads as they have quite a bit of western hat DNA in them anyway.

 

[Craig Robertson]

I agree, Gene, it does seem almost "westernish". I'm betting that the crease was used at one time and perhaps, as J.M.Stovall suggested, the same wardrobe person was on both films.

 

[Lefty]

It certainly can be western, but the idea might be a bit older.

 

[handlebar bart]

Art made the Fraser hat for Mummy 3. It was the best part of the movie:eusa_clap

 

[Craig Robertson]

Art made the Fraser hat for Mummy 3. It was the best part of the movie:eusa_clap

Ah...I thought I remembered reading that. Perhaps he had something to do with the "Miss Pettigrew..." hat?

and perhaps he can enlighten us about the brim treatment...was it their request or his doing?

Art?

 

[kaosharper1]

Semi-Homburg

I think there was the semi-homburg which was a homburg with the brim snapped down in the front so the sides curled up. Its described here in Hats for the Short Plump Man:

http://www.villagehatshop.com/facts_faces.html

The hat in Miss Pettigrew looked like that to me.

 

[Craig Robertson]

I think there was the semi-homburg which was a homburg with the brim snapped down in the front so the sides curled up. Its described here in Hats for the Short Plump Man:

http://www.villagehatshop.com/facts_faces.html

The hat in Miss Pettigrew looked like that to me.

I have the dvd still and I'll take a closer look...but to me it looked as if it started life as a standard fedora...the curl on the sides of the brim wasn't as pronounced as a homburg's.

 

[Jerekson]

I thought the hat in Mummy 3 looked like about the same brim style as some of the Last Crusade hats. I have a LC hat and when he appeared on screen the brim silhouette was instantly recognizable.

 

[Colby Jack]

...I have a LC hat and when he appeared on screen the brim silhouette was instantly recognizable.

...but was it a Vintage Silhouette you recognized? lol

 

[Jerekson]

Haha, yeah!

That was just my personal association though. It really did look exactly like my hat...

 

[Craig Robertson]

Haha, yeah!

That was just my personal association though. It really did look exactly like my hat...

Dig it. Just two questions:
1. What's a "L.C. Hat"
2. Can we see a picture of it?

 

[handlebar bart]

Dig it. Just two questions:
1. What's a "L.C. Hat"
2. Can we see a picture of it?

Last Crusade Indy hat

 

[Craig Robertson]

Last Crusade Indy hat

Thanks, I'll look it up.

(I ain't up with the Indy lingo...)

 

[Jerekson]

Last Crusade.

I have some better pictures of it if you need them, but these are from when I first shaped it.

 

[Craig Robertson]

very nice hat...but the one's in the movies I'm talking about had a more pronounced curl on the sides.

 

[Jerekson]

What exactly do you mean?

Was the brim actually curlier, or did it just raise up higher on the sides?

 

[Craig Robertson]

What exactly do you mean?

Was the brim actually curlier, or did it just raise up higher on the sides?

Hmmm...when I get home I will try to find an image from the films...but it was actually curled up on the sides.