Where do you see fedoras worn the most?

[scottyrocks]

I rarely see true fedoras in my neck of the woods, but those cheap cloth trilbies are common enough. However, everyone seems to think that they are one and the same. :frusty:

My problem is not with the trilbies themselves, but their wearers. They never seem to abide by even the most rudimentary of hat etiquette. I've even seen one young fellow every Sunday wearing his during the church service.

Perhaps I am just expecting too much from people that think a t-shirt and shorts is being well-dressed.

As for me, I would rather they not be worn at all than be worn incorrectly.

Unfortunately, what you are seeing is a 'fedora' on a head with a baseball cap mentality.

 

[fedoracentric]

Hey, an airport. That seems right to me. Last time I flew I saw quite a few! Good point.

 

[hatsRme]

My favorite fedora scene at Logan Airport in Boston (last year) was a more elderly man waiting for a flight WEARING four hats stacked on his head, and his wife had two more in her hands. SERIOUS hat wearer. Wonder what his full rotation looks like...

Does that count for one fedora wearer, or for several fedoras?

 

[hatophile]

My favorite fedora scene at Logan Airport in Boston (last year) was a more elderly man waiting for a flight WEARING four hats stacked on his head, and his wife had two more in her hands. SERIOUS hat wearer. Wonder what his full rotation looks like...

Does that count for one fedora wearer, or for several fedoras?

That could have been me, but I don't consider myself "elderly" yet.

 

[scottyrocks]

Aside from my own head, the neighborhood in Brooklyn in which I work will feature the occasional gentleman in a real fedora (not a cloth stingy).

 

[F. J.]

A certain older gentleman . . .

[...]the occasional gentleman in a real fedora (not a cloth stingy).

Now that I think about it, there is an older gentleman that I have seen around town who wears a sage-green wide-brimmed fedora and an A-2 jacket.

 

[suitedcboy]

Each hat box would be an extra checked bag. $25 for 1st, $35 for 2nd, and $150 for each additional. I'd wear 'em all too.

 

[jlee562]

Dolores Park on a sunny day here in SF has many a fedora....99% modern dealies. Goorin moves a lot of hats here.

 

[tonyb]

If we include in our definition of "fedora" those sewn fabric things the youngsters have adopted in recent years, and those cheap (but not inexpensive, necessarily) woolies Jared alludes to in the post above, I gotta say that I see more fedoras at bus stops and skateboard parks and other locales frequented by the adolescent/young adult set than anywhere else.

 

[tonyb]

Dolores Park on a sunny day here in SF has many a fedora....99% modern dealies. Goorin moves a lot of hats here.

They got two stores in the city, right? I presume they're paying the rent. Their markup has to be the stuff of retail dreams.

 

[jlee562]

They got two stores in the city, right? I presume they're paying the rent. Their markup has to be the stuff of retail dreams.

Yeah, the original store is in North Beach and the second one is on Haight Street (which surely cannot be cheap rent!). I've only been to the Haight Street store. The clerk was somewhat inquisitive about my Cavanagh Homburg.

Apparently they're also running a custom shop out of the North Beach store. I had no idea, but this ran in the Chronicle the other day:
http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/North-Beach-milliner-is-the-glad-hatter-of-San-5318901.php

That blur moving up and down the spiral staircase inside Goorin Bros. Custom Hat Shop in North Beach is Ron Schiller, who doesn't need a gym because he spends his days running between his sewing atelier and the basement, fetching felt and feathers and ribbons for discriminating customers in search of the perfect chapeau.

"I call myself a milliner - I like the way the word sounds more old-fashioned than hat maker," said Schiller, a self-taught artist who sold hats for Goorin in Los Angeles before moving to San Francisco in April 2013 to make custom hats.

In less than a year's time, he's developed a large following. He customized a wide brimmed Panama hat for Tim Burton when the filmmaker was in town shooting a movie last summer; he repaired a hat for local artist Jeremy Fish; and he took orders from many gay couples in the wake of the new ruling allowing same-sex marriage in California. Right now he has a long line of ladies waiting for one-of-a-kind toppers to wear to the Kentucky Derby.

"That's the really fun stuff," he said. "They want crazy colors and trims and lots of floppy hats. I once made a Kentucky Derby hat with different vintage trims all around it, and 4-foot feathers. These ladies are wild, and I love it."

 

[Tomasso]

If we include in our definition of "fedora" those sewn fabric things......

Now why would we do that?:eeek:

 

[Greyryder]

I generally refer to them as tweed trilbies. You usually find hipsters under them.

 

[F. J.]

Well . . .

Now why would we do that?:eeek:

Only if we've flipped our lids . . . lol

 

[hatflick1]

I would have thought a Lounger in Chicago would have chimed in to say
fedoras are worn in the Windy City. For some reason I always pictured Chicago
as one city where men wear a fine fedora. Or, maybe I was just too
influenced by the movie The Fugitive in which there appeared to be
many fedoras in the bg, as well as the one worn by the African-American agent
working alongside Tommy Lee Jones.

 

[Huertecilla]

Over here I see the most hats worn right in the village we live closest by to.
When it is not raining I trý to walk down to the village (and back) as a daily routine. Say good morning to the lady in the post office and drink a cup of coffee.

Most hats are Ferdora type to more hunting Trilby.
The gypsies wear mostly stingy brims. A stingy brim in combination with a cane is the trade mark of the clan heads. You wiil not see them without any time of the year.

´The patriarch´

Mid 20th century

and today

There is also one spanish pensioner who is apprearantly not allowed inside between feeding times and he wears a Panama in Fedora model whenever it is not raining. When it rains he is inside a bar with the hat on a chair or on the cigaret vending machine.
That is covering the everpresent regulars.

Obviously on the market day there are more hats worn as then there are the most people about, but it is the norm that you cannot go for a cup of coffe even on the calmest morning and not see sómeone with a hat. Besides the above mentioned that is.
When the sun gets higher, more staw hats come out. There is most times at least one english pensioner with a Panama on a terrace.

We just came back from some drinks and tapas as lunch and we left several of the regulars, a brit with Panama and another with an outback.

 

[PADDY]

Over here I see the most hats worn right in the village we live closest by to.
When it is not raining I trý to walk down to the village (and back) as a daily routine. Say good morning to the lady in the post office and drink a cup of coffee.

Most hats are Ferdora type to more hunting Trilby.
The gypsies wear mostly stingy brims. A stingy brim in combination with a cane is the trade mark of the clan heads. You wiil not see them without any time of the year.
There is also one spanish pensioner who is apprearantly not allowed inside between feeding times and he wears a Panama in Fedora model whenever it is not raining. When it rains he is inside a bar with the hat on a chair or on the cigaret vending machine.
That is covering the everpresent regulars.

Obviously on the market day there are more hats worn as then there are the most people about, but it is the norm that you cannot go for a cup of coffe even on the calmest morning and not see sómeone with a hat. Besides the above mentioned that is.
When the sun gets higher, more staw hats come out. There is most times at least one english pensioner with a Panama on a terrace.

We just came back from some drinks and tapas as lunch and we left several of the regulars, a brit with Panama and another with an outback.

I love Spain (España) for the hat wearing, especially in Andalusia. I always wear a fedoran(sometimes a beret as it rolls up in my pocket) in Spain and France when I travel there. A few years ago in Chicago I wore my fedora all the time and got great comments! People like them as they are different to the usual modern trend of beanies and baseball caps!! Plus they are jolly smart looking!!

 

[tommyK]

I see so many well dressed businessmen in NYC in bespoke suits, great shoes and accessories, expensive watches, trenchcoat, literally wearing thousands of dollars and they top it off with a cheap looking baseball cap! How someone could go to such lengths and expense in their appearance and not top it off with a proper hat amazes me.

 

[fedoracentric]

Man, that Huertecilla sure hates pensioners.

 

[DJH]

Well, this expat Brit can't wait to be able to get into wearing the old Panamas once it gets warmer.