You missed the obvious. The headrest in your car hits the brim of the fedora but does not bother a baseball cap. Fedora hats went away when headrests in cars were mandated by the government.
you are so stuck on your silly Baseball caps; I have never had a problem with a fedora guess what you take it off in the car, only old geezers still wear hats in cars this one doesn't all hats in the car obstructs your view be a man take your silly hat off in the car baseball or any other
My 42 yr old son has worn fedoras for years, since high school . He's always preferred it over the normal baseball cap that seems to be worn by everyone everywhere.
good for him, I hated and still do baseball caps, our police force went to them and lost all credibility police should wear police hats, back to fedoras you can't go wrong with a fedora
I'm 60 have worn fedora hats since I was 17. So far I am on my 3rd one, American Hat made 15x felt, grey with a narrow black hat band. I get many complaints on it and turned me into one of the most recognized leader in my small town...old school man.
I have 11 fedora hats and wear them with some regularity. They literally top off the rest of what I'm wearing and I love each and every one of them! One reason I think they are not as ubiquitous started when JFK became President. The only time I can recall his wearing a hat was when he was inaugurated and that was a top hat. Otherwise, you could see him holding a hat but never putting it on. This may be somewhat akin to when Clark Gable took of his shirt in the movie "It Happened One Night" , only to see he was not wearing an undershirt. That was enough to have undershirt sales plummet, as far as I know. (BTW - JFK did not place his left hand on the Bible in front of him when he took the Presidential Oath of Office. You can see this in any video of his inauguration.)
I'm 78 & wore Fedora's, as a child & up to the early 1960's! I feel that the Fedora is an abbreviated version of the old "cowboy hats" that westerners wore in the 1800's! Their problem was that they could not be folded, like a cap could & when not worn, needed to be properly stored, to prevent damage! It's a long gone tradition, that should not be restored!
I dispute your theory that the fedora was adopted by men from a women's style. Maybe the name, but not the hat. The general shape of the men's fedora was the next step in the evolution of the men's western hat or what we now call a cowboy hat, which evolved from the tri-corn of the 18th and 17th century and the men's high top hat. So was the bowler and the Mexican sombrero. Felt hats were a major reason for the beaver skin trade that moved westward as beavers were trapped out from eastern states.
I'm 38 yes old. I wear fedora and Panama hats. It's a huge statement piece. I get compliments all the time. It looks good with leather jackets to be bad boy. It's a good dark academia look too. You can can also make it more rugged sexy lumber sexual casual with a t shirt or sweater with jeans
Round brimed hats went by the wayside, along with many wearing suit/sport coats after the 60's counter-culture. None of the men shown in your thumbnail are actually wearing a Fedora.
I finally gave myself permission to wear a straw Fedora when I turned 40. Always loved them, but they can come off as a bit pretentious. Their practicality (for Sun protection, in particular) is unmatched, and I'm happy to report that I get a lot of compliments from Millennials and Gen Z guys out on the golf course. So, long live the Fedora.
the presenter refers to the business suit as formal attire. actually, no, formal is formal, semi formal is less formal, and both have a daytime and evening version with specific hat, footwear, and other accessories. the business suit is informal. a step down from informal is business casual (slacks, button-front shirt, tie, and coat). casual is slightly less, losing the coat and tie. the polo shirt, henley, yoga pants, shorts, and so on, are athletic wear. blue-collar is so called because the shirt of choice was a blue chambray, whether with overalls or jeans, although now blue-collar jobs usually accept t-shirts as an outer shirt, even though the t-shirt used to be underwear.
men's footwear is also misunderstood because most of us are counter-culture boomers and younger, and because of the rejection of societal norms we weren't taught any better. look up oxford and blucher shoes on wikipedia. whole-cut oxfords are the most formal for daywear. plain-cap oxfords are the best fit with informal. with casual you're allowed a little more freedom of style, but still in the realm of oxfords. bluchers are better suited for blue-collar work. athletic shoes are, well, you get the idea. the most misunderstood style of footwear is the so-called "wingtip". the punched design was originally seen in ghillies worn in the scottish and irish marshes. the holes let water drain out. modern wingtips have blind non-functional holes, but their origin makes them best suited to the golf course, especially with cleats, although if you want to wear non-cleated wingtips with casual attire, western dress code affords that freedom.
Decline in fedora hats probably also because with cars more common after WW2 and people moving to suburbs, then really don't need the hat to protect against the elements as in earlier years when many walked and took public transit to work. And newer cars didn't have enough headroom for a hat. Fedora hat was also essential for Howard Hughes to wear when he flight tested aircraft. Newspaper men found the band of fedora hat useful for holding the tag "press" for identifying them as reporters.
This is very true. I remember in 1960; Kennedy was televised bare headed during his campaign, we all thought it was very strange for a grown man to be out in public without a hat. That started it for the younger generation. My father continued to wear his and I took mine off.
Despite hat-and-suit films continuing to be produced in Hollywood, fedoras were well out of fashion in southern California by the 1950s, with the exception of elderly men at Sunday church services.
I have been wearing a fedora of one sort or another for the last forty years. My sense of fashion is my own. Piss on anyone who says anyone else’s fashion choices are wrong.
I was kid in the 1980s into the 1990s and, for many old men during that period, wearing a fedora was the LAW. Rather than signaling success and dapperness, it signaled they were old and far beyond their prime.
What is a "fedora" hat? Nobody (outside the USofA) knows. Why is a "fedora" iconic? It isn't... Nobody (including those in the USofA) knows what iconic means.
iconic - widely recognized and well established. there was a time when the fedora was at least recognized wherever the men's business suit was considered proper business attire. the video content is correct that with the 1960s counter-culture in much of the western world, the fedora was rejected by the youth of the time. many other things were rejected too, such as not presuming to speak about things one does not know. stick to your obsolete mortars and let the other adults talk about what we know.
