What type of hat is this?

[FedoraFan112390]

I don't know if any of you can tell, but what type of hat do you think my great grandfather (on the right) is holding? I thought perhaps a straw a hat, but the picture was taken April 22nd 1945, so not straw hat time or weather more than likely.

 

[danofarlington]

I don't know if any of you can tell, but what type of hat do you think my great grandfather (on the right) is holding? I thought perhaps a straw a hat, but the picture was taken April 22nd 1945, so not straw hat time or weather more than likely.

Not straw--cool weather--felt for sure. Western hat, if not a cowboy hat. But probably a cowboy hat because the other kind, "men's dress hats," don't usually have such a wide brim. What state are we talking about?

 

[FedoraFan112390]

Not straw--cool weather--felt for sure. Western hat, if not a cowboy hat. But probably a cowboy hat because the other kind, "men's dress hats," don't usually have such a wide brim. What state are we talking about?

New York City and the man holding it was a former turn of the century immigrant from Italy.

 

[danofarlington]

New York City and the man holding it was a former turn of the century immigrant from Italy.

So an Italian style wide-brimmed hat. I didn't know they wore them that wide in that era.

 

[FedoraFan112390]

So an Italian style wide-brimmed hat. I didn't know they wore them that wide in that era.

Well you figure my great grandpa was born in the 1880s so perhaps for him, from where he originally came from/his upbringing that was the style he was accustomed to.