What to wear with a fedora....

[Wolfwood]

I agree with that. I wear my fedora pretty casually, but I do avoid wearing it with a t-shirt (I don't wear t's out in public anyway, unless I use them as undershirts).

 

[Adnamira]

It's something I noticed about the Finns when I visited Finland is what snappy dressers a lot of them were. Well, it was the end of winter and a lot of people were wearing black, but a lot of the people I saw looked neat and nicely dressed. I think it is actually easier to dress nice in cooler weather. Things tend to get sloppy, for some reason, in warmer weather.

Dress sense in Australia has gone down the gurgler. Except for a few metrosexuals, bogan dagginess rules. Inspite of the fact that Akubra makes quite a number of fashion hats, I've just realised this myself, you rarely see anything other than western, country and baseball caps. I was once asked why I was dressed like an Englishman by a bloke who was wearing a John Deere baseball cap.

 

[bond]

"Bogan Dagginess", Thats what Iam talkin about! Please explain what I think this phrase means?

 

[Adnamira]

"Bogan Dagginess", Thats what Iam talkin about! Please explain what I think this phrase means?

It's the wearing of the basest form of casual dress at all times and the derision of anyone that makes an effort to be neat and tidy. If I have a shower and put on an inexpensive button up shirt and a pair of cleans jeans and go down to the pub, people ask me why I am dressed up. Apparently, how dirty and filthy you are is a mark of how hard you work, but in my fathers era - the forties and fifties - men in rural areas worked harder than they do now, but if they went to town or went out, they would clean themselves up and wear good clothes. The wearing of thongs (flip flops), wife beaters, baseball caps and flannos is considered the true Australian way to dress, but now with all these white guys wearing tribal tattoos on the top of their arms, and with the baseball cap thing, they don't look that different to Rap Gangsters. It is basically dressing like a slob. I'm a bogan myself, but trying to reform myself The reason that bogans don't dress that well is basically because they prefer to spend their money on grog and cars.

 

[LoveMyHats2]

I am seldom anywhere while "awake" without a fedora on....in fact, more than not if I am still wearing my P.J.s, and eating breakfast, I am wearing a fedora....(when they make a "sleep in it" fedora, I will perhaps purchase one!

Jeans, sports coat, suit, casual, it is all good for wearing a fedora...(even P.J.'s for me)!

 

[John in Covina]

Something I like are brown jeans, moleskins or similar weight trousers.

Cabela's has some canvas jeans that come in a variety of brown & tan shades.

 

[danofarlington]

Open-necked collared shirt with buttons, and blue jeans. With boots is even better. With a sport coat when you are so moved.

 

[Adnamira]

Will have to google Cabela's. Thanks, John

 

[Cosmo]

I wear anything and everything with my Fedora hats. I have some nice dressy Fedoras that I reserve for when I am dressed to the 9's, but I have other ones that are more broken and worn in but still in great shape that I wear with shorts and a t-shirt or jeans and a polo. I guess the only thing I wouldnt wear one with would be a swimsuit lol. But generally I think it is fine to wear a Fedora with shorts, t-shirt and sandals or topsiders etc.


I cant wear one while working unfortunately as the judge frowns on headwear in the court room. I am a criminal defense attorney.

 

[Detective_Noir]

Turtleneck and fedora?

winter time here and i was wondering how a turtleneck with a nice double breasted blazer would look with the hat would sound.

 

[jlee562]

This "Hollywood man" seems to like that look:

 

[Denton]

I wear turtleneck shirts all the time, sometimes with a fedora. Personally, I think a turtleneck is particularly well suited for wearing with a bowler.

I appreciate the example set by Hollywood Man, but as far as I can tell, neither combination is popular in Hollywood today.

 

[hatophile]

I'd love to have a green Playboy like the Hollywood man!

 

[TomS]

I wear anything with my fedoras. Suits, jeans...whatever.

 

[1930artdeco]

What hat should I buy

Hi all,

I just got this suit and now I need a lid. I was thinking Fedora, but then I thought what about a Panama? And if a Fedora what color, brim width, etc.?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-194...AdxIqYefCVnoWYO7oDBok%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

Mike

 

[gtdean48]

I'd go for silverbelly to blend with the pinstripes & is a versatile color, both greys & browns.
As far as the rest, that depends on your facial features & dimensions....

 

[Alive'n'Amplified]

You could do a nice contrast with a black cherry or navy blue felt.

 

[Historyteach24]

Silver Belly IMO with almost any ribbon you would like. That suit calls for some contrast

 

[Jedwbpm]

A Charcoal Gray Stylemaster from Akubra will work well too.


Jeff
Living the dream at Delmonico Hatter

 

[TomS]

Jeans and fedoras are great. IMHO, the fedora is no longer primarily a "dress" hat. Dress it can be, but it is at home in a wider, and less formal setting now. We may wear the same hat our fathers wore, but most don't don't dress like them. The more folks who see fedoras causal presentations, the more fedoras we are going to see folks sporting - IMHO, of course.

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