Want to buy or sell something? Check the classifieds
  • The Fedora Lounge is supported in part by commission earning affiliate links sitewide. Please support us by using them. You may learn more here.

Show us their hats!

Messages
18,915
Location
Central California
View attachment 368031
Foyle's War actors. Sgt. Milner (Anthony Howell) (Detective Chief Superintendent Foyle,) Michael Kitchen, Sam, Foyle's driver, (Honeysuckle Weeks)
View attachment 368030
Is Foyle's War shown outside of the UK?


I own the box set on DVD. Huge fan on this type of British TV. I’m also attracted to the morality and decorum of Foyle. I despise the current focus on the antihero found in so much TV and cinema. I also enjoy the police dramas that don’t involve car chases, fistfights, and shootouts. The period sets and period philosophies are an added bonus.
 

GHT

I'll Lock Up
Messages
9,279
Location
New Forest
We watched it on the Acorn streaming service.
Acorn gets a mention quite often on The Lounge, it seems to be quite popular.
Thanks for that, it just shows that it's so easy to miss a thread if you don't look in most days.

The period sets and period philosophies are an added bonus.
Foyle is superbly acted and equally well scripted. I have always thought that Foyle had an air of the latter day Sherlock Holmes about him. Then having watched that great detective on TV in "The House of Silk," I saw, on the credits that Anthony Horowitz, Foyle's creator, had penned the script. Why was I not surprised?
 
Messages
17,855
Location
Nederland
Jules Anton Deelder (24 November 1944 – 19 December 2019) was a Dutch poet, spoken word poet, writer, jazz musician (drums), stand-up comedian, deejay and media personality. His poems cover topics such as life in the city of Rotterdam, drug use, and jazz, of which he had a near encyclopedic knowledge. He was very passionate about the Dutch language and feared that European integration would cause smaller languages like Dutch to become a "folkloric" curiosity. He was well known in the Netherlands for his live performances and appearances in Dutch popular media. His prominent role in the cultural life of Rotterdam earned him the nickname "night mayor of Rotterdam". He was an avid drug user, especially speed, about he was very open. He was also a hat wearer, certainly in his later years, and he sported many different ones. He is sorely missed.
deelder2.jpg
deelder3.jpg
deelder4.jpg
deelder5.jpg
deelder6.jpg

deelder7.jpg
deelder8.jpg
deelder9.jpg
deelder10.jpg
 

Pellie

One Too Many
Messages
1,401
Location
Enschede, Netherlands
Jules Anton Deelder (24 November 1944 – 19 December 2019) was a Dutch poet, spoken word poet, writer, jazz musician (drums), stand-up comedian, deejay and media personality. His poems cover topics such as life in the city of Rotterdam, drug use, and jazz, of which he had a near encyclopedic knowledge. He was very passionate about the Dutch language and feared that European integration would cause smaller languages like Dutch to become a "folkloric" curiosity. He was well known in the Netherlands for his live performances and appearances in Dutch popular media. His prominent role in the cultural life of Rotterdam earned him the nickname "night mayor of Rotterdam". He was an avid drug user, especially speed, about he was very open. He was also a hat wearer, certainly in his later years, and he sported many different ones. He is sorely missed.
View attachment 370176 View attachment 370177 View attachment 370178 View attachment 370179 View attachment 370180
View attachment 370181 View attachment 370182 View attachment 370183 View attachment 370184
And also the biggest supporter of Sparta Rotterdam :)
 

GHT

I'll Lock Up
Messages
9,279
Location
New Forest
And also the biggest supporter of Sparta Rotterdam :)
You mention football, that's soccer in some parts of the world but as it's played with the feet it can only be football.
MA1.jpg

Malcolm Allison, 5 September 1927 – 14 October 2010, was an English football player and manager. Nicknamed "Big Mal", he was one of English football's most flamboyant mavericks and intriguing characters because of his panache, fedora and cigar, controversies off the pitch and outspoken nature.

Allison's managerial potential become apparent while in his youth at West Ham United, where he became a reliable defender and acted as a mentor to the younger players including future England World Cup winning captain Bobby Moore. His playing career was cut short in 1958 when he had to have a lung removed because of tuberculosis.

As a coach, he is remembered for assisting the manager, Joe Mercer, in the transformation of the team he supported as a young boy, namely, Manchester City. During the 1960s and early 1970s, Allison won six major trophies in seven years with Mercer.

After Mercer left, he managed the club on two occasions whilst offering his managerial services for a third time in 1989. He also managed several more English clubs including Crystal Palace and Middlesbrough, as well as three in Portugal and the Kuwait national team.
MA3.jpg
At football matches you will often see the club manager at the touch line shouting and gesticulating in a track suit. But that wasn't Allison's style, his reputation for flamboyance was well deserved: I hadn't better show you the photo of him in the team bath, with a naked lady, the mods would quite rightly bring me to book.
MA4.jpg


Just so that you know. Football was once a team sport with few rules. On one occasion a fellow, name of William Webb Ellis, picked up the ball and ran with it. There was no rule to say he couldn't do that. It caused a schism in the game. One train of thought agreed with Ellis amd as Ellis attended the Rugby School, which is where he handled the ball, Rugby Football Union was born.

The other train of thought maintained that football was played with the feet and so they formed the Football Association. The abbreviation for association is Assoc. That is where the word soccer comes from. So now you know.
 

GHT

I'll Lock Up
Messages
9,279
Location
New Forest
Bob Katter.jpg


Bob Katter, the eccentric MP who is an Australian powerbroker, is famous for wearing a large Akubra-brand hat at most public appearances. A tough-talking politician with a fondness for guns and sing-a-longs.

Wyclef Jean.jpg
Nel Ust Wyclef Jean is a Haitian rapper, musician and actor. At the age of nine, Jean emigrated to the United States with his family. He first achieved fame as a member of the New Jersey hip hop group the Fugees, alongside Lauryn Hill and Pras Michel. They released the albums Blunted on Reality and The Score, the latter becoming one of the best-selling albums of all time.
All of which is total gobble-de-gook to me, but he does strike a pose.
 
Last edited:
Messages
17,855
Location
Nederland
You mention football, that's soccer in some parts of the world but as it's played with the feet it can only be football.
View attachment 370328
Malcolm Allison, 5 September 1927 – 14 October 2010, was an English football player and manager. Nicknamed "Big Mal", he was one of English football's most flamboyant mavericks and intriguing characters because of his panache, fedora and cigar, controversies off the pitch and outspoken nature.

Allison's managerial potential become apparent while in his youth at West Ham United, where he became a reliable defender and acted as a mentor to the younger players including future England World Cup winning captain Bobby Moore. His playing career was cut short in 1958 when he had to have a lung removed because of tuberculosis.

As a coach, he is remembered for assisting the manager, Joe Mercer, in the transformation of the team he supported as a young boy, namely, Manchester City. During the 1960s and early 1970s, Allison won six major trophies in seven years with Mercer.

After Mercer left, he managed the club on two occasions whilst offering his managerial services for a third time in 1989. He also managed several more English clubs including Crystal Palace and Middlesbrough, as well as three in Portugal and the Kuwait national team.
View attachment 370329
At football matches you will often see the club manager at the touch line shouting and gesticulating in a track suit. But that wasn't Allison's style, his reputation for flamboyance was well deserved: I hadn't better show you the photo of him in the team bath, with a naked lady, the mods would quite rightly bring me to book.
View attachment 370330

Just so that you know. Football was once a team sport with few rules. On one occasion a fellow, name of William Webb Ellis, picked up the ball and ran with it. There was no rule to say he couldn't do that. It caused a schism in the game. One train of thought agreed with Ellis amd as Ellis attended the Rugby School, which is where he handled the ball, Rugby Football Union was born.

The other train of thought maintained that football was played with the feet and so they formed the Football Association. The abbreviation for association is Assoc. That is where the word soccer comes from. So now you know.
Now there's the flamboyance we don't see enough of these days. Very cool.
 
Messages
18,915
Location
Central California
On November 5th 1605, saw what became known as: The Gunpowder Plot. It has been, firstly an English celebration then a British one. Over the years it became better known as Bonfire Night. Click on that link, you will find it fascinating.

What has all this got to do with hats? Have a look at the portrait of the conspirators:

View attachment 375888


Nice tall crowns, but too much taper for my taste. ;)
 

GHT

I'll Lock Up
Messages
9,279
Location
New Forest
fedora3.jpg

JFK could wear almost any hat, he just looked right. This is a photo that I have been searching for, I remember seeing it in the British press and commenting to my father that the President's trilby seemed rather large. Dad told me that it was called a Fedora, that was the first time that I came across the hat and it's name.
fedora4.jpg

Prince Charles often comes in for much ridicule, he does seem to be gaffe prone, but this photo was cleverly contrived to appear at a time when the link between excessive sun tanning and skin cancer was giving cause for concern.
 

Forum statistics

Threads
107,025
Messages
3,026,634
Members
52,528
Latest member
Zonko
Top