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[Pinhead]

As suggested, I will crease the sides and, I think, crush the tip-top of the front down and forward a bit (like some old Calvary hats I've seen?)

Whoa!

I don't know about ripping the brim, but I like the way he crushed up the top!

[billwoo]

http://cdn.aarp.net/content/dam/aarp...b.300.192.jpeg

Hi, I'm not "deep into hat taxonomy," but for whatever reason this hat, worn in the movie, "Now you see me, now you don't," ... which I have not seen ... fascinated me.

The link above is to a 300x192 .jpg file that appeared on the American Association of Retired Persons web-site by permission of the movie's producers (Summit Entertainment).

thanks, Bill

[A.C. Lyles]

It looks like a fedora.

[alanfgag]

I saw the movie over the weekend. It looked to me to be a long hair finish custom hat with modern (low crown) proportions. Woody Harrelson had a number of stingy brim fedoras that came and went presto chango.

[billwoo]

Thanks, A.C. Lyles, and AlanFGag, for your responses !

@Alan Nice web-site; your photo, and your hat, reminds me of pictures of Robert Oppenheimer I've seen in a book I am just finishing reading, Richard Rhodes' excellent "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" (25th. anniversary edition, 2012, ISBN: 1451677618).

Astronomy in Brooklyn: I was in the lower East-Side in 1963, a runaway (from family, from Duke) young WASP posing as an ersatz beatnik poet; attending a Chabad-Lubavitch Chasidic wedding in Crown Heights was a highlight of those years: those men knew how to wear hats, and how to keep them on while dancing ecstatically; my hat fell off a lot, but I kept up with the dancing, being endowed with great strength, energy, and naivete, in those times.

Those were the halcyon days when certain baby-boomers, fallen-out-of their middle-class saddles, saw galaxies, comets, and supernovas, right in the living room, close-up, courtesy of Mr. Hoffman, and Sandoz ... on the edge of the national psychodrama that turned America inside-out, in the rest of the sixties.

My first thought, seeing Freeman's hat, was to remember the Chabad-Lubavitch men's hat, but I believe those hats did not have curled brims.

yours, Bill