Three Stooges and hats

[EggHead]

I was browsing through some Three Stooges episodes on Hulu the other night and noticed that most men there wear all sorts of nice hats.
Women were also dressed well!

 

[danofarlington]

I was browsing through some Three Stooges episodes on Hulu the other night and noticed that most men there wear all sorts of nice hats.
Women were also dressed well!

Throughout all of American history (perhaps elsewhere too), people were on a drive to "be refined." Everyone aspired to get to and look like a higher class. So far as I can tell, this lasted until the 1960s, when the counterculture in its era of prosperity went in another direction. It is the search for refinement that makes people in all the older movies wear suits all the time. Even at dinner in their own houses, with just their own families, they're dressed up in suits and ties. A different mentality than today's casual attitude.

 

[Midwest Boater]

ive posted this before but just for fun ... nuc nuc nuc.

 

[theinterchange]

ive posted this before but just for fun ... nuc nuc nuc.

Normally, the Stooges don't wear hats that grab me, but I like the one Larry's wearing in this shot... is it from The Sitter Downers, or do you know?

Randy

 

[zetwal]

Curly was always tough to fit -

 

[Midwest Boater]

sorry interchange i dont know i found this photo framed and matted at a flea market and could not pass it up.
cool pic zetwal, leave it to the stooges to get the whole hat fitting thing backwards.

 

[theinterchange]

sorry interchange i dont know i found this photo framed and matted at a flea market and could not pass it up.
cool pic zetwal, leave it to the stooges to get the whole hat fitting thing backwards.

I wouldn't be able to pass it up, either!

Randy

 

[ebb]

i always enjoyed the three stooges. Havnt seen it on tv lately.

 

[EggHead]

Go to youtube.

 

[Midwest Boater]

it was the sitter downers the opening seen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7WP1huhWIs
this clip also confirms the stooges wore stetsons.

 

[theinterchange]

it was the sitter downers the opening seen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7WP1huhWIs
this clip also confirms the stooges wore stetsons.

I thought I recognized it as the opening scene from that short. I forgot that Curly says "I got Stetson. Which one is she?" lol

Randy

 

[GoldenEraFan]

Curly Howard trying on hats circa 1937

[video=youtube;I9P-CfNOSN0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9P-CfNOSN0[/video]

 

[Tomasso]

Curly would have fit in nicely here.

 

[CONELRAD]

He gives new meaning to the term "snap brim" with that boater.

 

[TheDane]

He gives new meaning to the term "snap brim" with that boater.

lol :eusa_clap lol

 

[Blackthorn]

Hey, I resemble that!

 

[fedoralover]

[video=youtube;I9P-CfNOSN0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9P-CfNOSN0[/video]

Hilarious. I grew up watching these guys. I know it's an acquired taste for some, but I love em.

fedoralover

 

[CaramelSmoothie]

Whenever I watch old movies and see beautiful hats, dresses, handbags, etc. I always wonder if the studios preserved them and they're sitting in the back of some storage room somewhere but I know it's not possible to save every nice garment.

 

[TheDane]

I always wonder if the studios preserved them and they're sitting in the back of some storage room somewhere but I know it's not possible to save every nice garment.

I can't speak for movie studios, but most theatres have been through several rebuilds and modernizations over the last 40-50 years - due to the enormous development of tech-equipment. In that process much "old stuff" has been dumped. Disastrous, yes - but space is always a problem [huh]

 

[Stanley Doble]

A lot of movie costumes came from costume rental outfits. They maintained large warehouses full of all kinds of costumes. The stars would have costumes made for them, the rest got rentals. In the case of B movies often they rented everything.