The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

[Chepstow]

Ed, cool photo, you are so right!

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

 

[Joshbru3]

What a wonderful photo, Ed! I just love it!

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

No Free Lunch 1930

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Cap Lovers need love too.

 

[seabass]

[QUOTE
Cap Lovers need love too.[/QUOTE]
TWH
I Agree !

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Thought you would those Che.

 

[Fletch]

Hats in Crisis: Summer 1932

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Washington, D.C., July 4, 1932. Thousands of World War veterans demonstrate at the U.S. Capitol for immediate payment of their service bonuses. The marchers remained encamped in Washington until forcibly removed by Army units on July 28. The bonus stayed unpaid until a newly Democratic Congress put it thru in 1933.

Note the heavy preponderance of felt hats and wool caps despite the 90+ degree heat of a Washington summer. Most of the marchers had nothing else to wear - a cheap straw or cloth hat would not last, nor could they replace it. As for garrison caps, the wool article was the only one issued in WW1.

 

[Fletch]

Hats at Ease: Summer 1932

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Cambridge, Mass., June 22, 1932. Baseball crowd, Harvard vs. Yale, Soldiers' Field. The Bulldog's bite didn't amount to much as the Crimson sailed to a 17-4 triumph under pitching ace Charlie Devens. That fall, Devens became a New York Yankee, and would live to be the last survivor of 1932's World Series champion team.

Hatwise, the classic Ivy League skimmer was all but mandatory in this well-heeled, patrician set (many surely sporting a Crimson ribbon). Light, soft panamas were yet to reach peak popularity - when seen, the English style optimo prevailed. Porkpie straws, such as on the gent at bottom center, must have looked a raffish indulgence.

Note the lack of men in light colored suits or even shirtsleeves. Temperature be damned - it was a weekday, and this was greater, but Proper, Boston!

 

[mayserwegener]

Late 19th Century German style soft felt hat (known as the Fedora, Homburg, Alpine in America at that time). Mainz, Germany, late 19th Century. I picked this photo up a while back but never posted it.

 

[RBH]

1937 Scouts

1937 General Motors Strike, Oshawa, Ontario.

FDR

 

[scottyrocks]

Great pictures, RBH, mayser and fletch.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Thanks for all the great pics.

 

[St. Valentine]

Thanks for all the great pics.

+1

@Fletch: Thank you for those great, two photos! It´s is highly interesting the get the idea behind the way people were dressing in those days. A pity that it seems all to be lost now.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

 

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[fedoralover]

 

[carouselvic]

Naked Cowboy...The Early Years

 

[fedoracentric]

That is so cool I am going to make it my avatar.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Gypsies before World War II

Budapest, Hungary 1939