James Bond's hat(s)?

[Jovan]

As some of you may know, I'm a big James Bond fan. So I apologize if this has been asked, but do any of you know who made and what type of hat Connery wore in the first few films? I distinctly remember a sort of black or dark brown one (perhaps both?) with smallish brim that he always tossed onto the hat rack in Ms. Moneypenny's office. He also wore it for the helicopter sequence in From Russia With Love as well as in the opening gun barrel sequence (which was actually a stuntman doubling for him).

Again, I apologize if this has been brought up, but frankly the search feature on here is a bit limited to say the least!

 

[rockyj]

Sorry I'm no help

Like you I'm a Bond fan and I wish I did know about his hat. I to like always liked the way he tossed his hat on the rack, even though I can't do myselflol

 

[epic610]

once it was a homburg...

that he flung on the hatrack. a dark blue one. i forget the title but it was the one where he had to trade in his baretta for a walther ppk. just on cable last week.

 

[Bogie]

The Bond film you are referring to, unless I am greiviously mistaken Epic610, is Doctor No. The first Bond film ever, and one of my personal favourites still.

Despite my status as a Bond fanatic, I can offer no real evidence as to what sort of hat Bond had. However, I always did have an attachment for Oddjob's steel brimmed hat, just so if anyone gave me a rotten comment, about my choice of vintage clothing, I would have a rather "decapitating" statement I could always make in return.

 

[Diamondback]

However, I always did have an attachment for Oddjob's steel brimmed hat, just so if anyone gave me a rotten comment, about my choice of vintage clothing, I would have a rather "decapitating" statement I could always make in return.

I always wanted the speargun from Thunderball for confrontations, just to make sure the other guy "...got the point."lol

 

[Matt Deckard]

It's a trilby -- a small imension fedora.

Lock hatter and Herbert Johnson still have them available.

Pretty common style in the UK in the late 50's and through the 60's... still a mainstay at the tracks in the UK.

I myself prefer bigger dimentions when it comes to headwear... I need the shade.

 

[Jovan]

I thought it might be a trilby, but I'm not an expert at hats. So it's basically a scaled down fedora with the brim and band?

 

[Baron Kurtz]

I may be blind, but this looks more like a bowler to me. Would be appropriate for a visit to the City:

Then you have this Milan straw:

Someone here must have these movies to confirm what type of hat he throws onto the hat-rack . . .

bk

 

[Shaul-Ike Cohen]

Strangely, when I looked around for something different (that payable perfect 30s hat in my imagination...), I came across this one just yesterday evening:

http://www.baronhats.com/JamesBond.htm

That what you w' looking for?

 

[Jovan]

Thank you very much. Unfortunately, that price is way beyond my limit. :-/

Ironically Roger Moore was author Ian Fleming's original choice for Bond, but he was committed to his British TV series, "The Saint". (And it ended up taking him almost twenty years for him to get his chance!)

That's incorrect. David Niven was his original choice, and The Saint didn't start until a few months before Dr. No premiered.

 

[pretty faythe]

IMHO Connery is still the best 007, even including the actors from the 80's and 90's. (This coming from a gal that had a preteen crush on Remington Steele).
Sorry, no info of the hats.

 

[Jovan]

I think Daniel Craig is the best 007 since Connery, personally.

 

[jml90]

Thank you very much. Unfortunately, that price is way beyond my limit. :-/

Maybe this is more your budget?
http://www.hatsdirect.com/cgi/products.cgi?view=57&returncat=Fedora+Hats&returnpage=0

 

[Jovan]

Well, I'm not necessarily going to BUY it now, just want some information should I decide to get one in the future. A smaller hat could turn out to be useful someday.

 

[Aerol]

check out

Paul Stuart's Fortnighter hat. I've had mine for 15 years and it's a dandy.

http://www.paulstuart.com/Product/ProductInfo.aspx?id=1063&cid=75

Great felt and great style.

 

[Nick D]

As snappy a dresser as Bond usually is, he doesn't seem to wear a hat much anymore. Perhaps a sign of the times?

 

[Mark G]

In the books, Bond didn't wear a hat at all, he didn't like them.

 

[Jovan]

I'm not talking about Bond in the books, however. But I'm sure the diehard fans cursed and spat at the projector when Sean Connery's doppelganger (stunt coordinator Bob Simmons) walked onto the screen wearing a hat in 1962.

 

[David Bresch]

Didn't he wear a fedora when he first showed up at the motel in The Spy Who Loved Me?

 

[dr greg]

the original

I wonder, and let me say first that I reckon DC is the best Bond since Dalton, why they don't do a period Bond film instead of constantly updating the character and stories to contemporary situations, OK I know the old ones were exactly that, but still, with their budget, a vintage Bond film made today would be somethin special???