The Hat Style Sensation of 1938

[rlk]

TYROLEAN!!!!

 

[rlk]

NYTimes complains about 1893 Alpine Hat Revival:
THE ALPINE HAT.

May 28, 1893, Wednesday
Page 4, 600 words
No person of good taste can view without distrust the revival of the so-called Alpine hat. Last Fall a feeble attempt was made to bring this article of wearing apparel, which is properly described by the hatters as "natty headgear," into use, but it was confined to persons who habitually own more than one hat, and know, moreover, how to use a hat. [ END OF FIRST PARAGRAPH ]

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B02E4DD103BEF33A2575BC2A9639C94629ED7CF

 

[Michaelshane]

$27.50 per dozen.

 

[Lefty]

Thanks.

and like that, a signature is born




-"Don't forget, we had a hatless fad once..."

 

[skyvue]

Sterling Holloway is quite pleased to receive one of those hats for Christmas in REMEMBER THE NIGHT (1940), written by Preston Sturges, directed by Mitchel Leisen, and starring Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck.

 

[rlk]

Thanks to Hitler it took 20 years for the style cycle to return. Your fuzzy or stingy hat from 1960 is perhaps more authentic late 1930's style than the IJ

 

[tnitz]

Ahhh....

The hat that has always eluded me. I just can't wear them.

Thank you ALOT for sharing this series of write-ups, it's nice to pinpoint a style's appearance like this.

I recall buying my first "good" Tyrolian. From three really nice ones, I chose the Stetson over the Austrian ones, it was just a bit nicer overall. As much as I wanted to wear it and use it, it just never, ever, looked good on me. After years of having it sit around, I finally got rid of it.

I used to say that I don't recall ever owning a wool felt hat. These ads made me realize that I did have a turquoise Tyrolian as a kid that I am pretty sure was purchased at Ringling Bros. circus. I no longer recall what circus act inspired the purchase, I only remember riding the elephant.

Am awaiting a Bluegrass Camp Draft and one possibility in mind is trying, perhaps for the last time, to make a Tyrolian that looks good on me...

 

[Fletch]

March, 1938???

Excellent timing for anything Austrian.
("Tyrolean" refers to the Tyrol, the Alpine region divided by Austria and Italy.)

Klicken zu embiggenen / Clicca per embiggiare

 

[mayserwegener]

Robert, Thank you for posting the article. I noticed the Brüder Böhm advert. I have never been able to find one of their hats. I have a couple 1960s Böhm hats.

 

[rlk]

Back by 1954...

 

[tnitz]

Dressy Example

By the way, I was watching Ocean's Eleven the other day and noted in the beginning that the financier was wearing a sharp looking navy Tyrolean with bronze cord wrap with his navy vest and bronze tie (and a bronzy tweed jacket) VERY sharp but made me wonder if he had a different hat for every vest and tie combo.

I have to admit that I blame the Tyrolian for the end of hat wearing as we once knew it...

 

[Mid-fogey]

I looked...

...and looked at Tyroleans while in Garmisch a few years ago. I just couldn’t bring myself to buy one. My father-in-law had one with a number of the badges from his visits. Worked for him, not for me.

 

[rlk]

Bruder Böhm follow-up

 

[mayserwegener]

Yes Brüder Böhm was Jewish owned. After the war the family went back to Vienna and started making hats again under Böhm. The hat factories (also Hückel and Peschel) in Nový Jičín, Czechoslovakia were nationalized after WWII.

 

[Rick Blaine]

Fletch & rik, thanks for the much needed perspective. Never again.

Hat Style Sensation of 1939

 

[Dreispitz]

Fletch & rik, thanks for the much needed perspective. Never again.

Hat Style Sensation of 1939

Note the caerfully hammered edge! (Satire!)

Yes, there was a lot of unpleasent disturbance and utterly unheard of hardship during and after the twelve years. Not only in the hat industry.

 

[The Sky Ranger]

My father was a "Hat-Man", he had some fifty hats.
But never did he wear a "Tirolerhut", he considered them to be "tasteless".
As a "sports hat" he used to wear straw hats (mostly Panamas), Trilbies or Pork Pies,