Fedora brim width???

[GP Henry]

Kevin has a story to tell.

 

[suitedcboy]

I think this is the Bugs Bunny & Warner Brothers parody of Bogart as Rick.
Yep, the comment was strong but short of disparaging to any great degree. He said LOOK like a fool, not that you are a fool in that style hat. I wear 4 1/2 inch or larger brim westerns and like my fedoras larger brim as well. I had a stingy brim come with another Ebay hat once and I put it on and looked in the mirror and decided that I shared Hanover's opinion as to what I looked like at that moment. Many wear stingy brims well.

 

[Art Hat1]

Won this hat on eBay yesterday, according to the seller it has a 5 in crown and a 2 in brim. I figure after some gentle steaming and shaping it’ll look quite respectable as a Bogart hat on my 5ft 2in tall frame.

 

[hatsRme]

Won this hat on eBay yesterday, according to the seller it has a 5 in crown and a 2 in brim. I figure after some gentle steaming and shaping it’ll look quite respectable as a Bogart hat on my 5ft 2in tall frame.

Sweet find. It’s going to be perfect! Don’t drive yourself nuts looking for perfection. You could spoil the look.
Can’t wait to see it!

 

[Art Hat1]

Sweet find. It’s going to be perfect! Don’t drive yourself nuts looking for perfection. You could spoil the look.
Can’t wait to see it!

Oh no, no perfection! What’s the fun in that!? But the side I didn’t post an image of is a little flattened so I want to fix that a little and get the diamond a tad more defined. But considering my face shape and height I think that brim width will work out great!

 

[glider]

JFK is usually credited with men not wearing hats nearly as much as they did before him. Those pictures of him were definitely in a trilby or stingy brim as we call them. That is the period when they were popular, and it might explain why he didn't care for hats. Most Akubras have a wider brim than most fedoras. Other than a pork pie I'm not a fan of a stingy brim, after all a hat should keep the rain off your head and a wider brim is much better for that. Actually I believe that is the reason western hats are syled the way they are with very large brims, more protection from the sun and rain etc.

 

[Art Hat1]

JFK is usually credited with men not wearing hats nearly as much as they did before him. Those pictures of him were definitely in a trilby or stingy brim as we call them. That is the period when they were popular, and it might explain why he didn't care for hats. Most Akubras have a wider brim than most fedoras. Other than a pork pie I'm not a fan of a stingy brim, after all a hat should keep the rain off your head and a wider brim is much better for that. Actually I believe that is the reason western hats are syled the way they are with very large brims, more protection from the sun and rain etc.

Not just Westerns, but Outback’s, Safaris, even gardening hats. A nice wide brim is necessary here most of the year, especially the dog hours of the dog days of high-summer! Sometimes though a shorter snap brim can make you feel cool even if it doesn’t keep you as cool.

 

[belfastboy]

Not just Westerns, but Outback’s, Safaris, even gardening hats. A nice wide brim is necessary here most of the year, especially the dog hours of the dog days of high-summer! Sometimes though a shorter snap brim can make you feel cool even if it doesn’t keep you as cool.

Hats, at least fedoras, are largely a fashion item (that has some utility) and as such the styles change decade to decade. The 'why' is not discernable much like the lengthening or shortening of ladies skirts.

Western hats are both work hats and fashion but as they began life as a 'working hat' the utility of them has kept the look of them fairly constant over the years. There was not, to my knowledge, a stingy brim era for western hats.....(other than the derby in preStetson times)

 

[Art Hat1]

Hats, at least fedoras, are largely a fashion item (that has some utility) and as such the styles change decade to decade. The 'why' is not discernable much like the lengthening or shortening of ladies skirts.

Western hats are both work hats and fashion but as they began life as a 'working hat' the utility of them has kept the look of them fairly constant over the years. There was not, to my knowledge, a stingy brim era for western hats.....(other than the derby in preStetson times)

True, though even the derbies back then, at least some of the time, had slightly wider brims than many would associate with them now. Once they were fully a town/city dress hat though those mildly larger brimmed derbies went away.

 

[belfastboy]

True, though even the derbies back then, at least some of the time, had slightly wider brims than many would associate with them now. Once they were fully a town/city dress hat though those mildly larger brimmed derbies went away.

I think it was John Stetson introducing/popularizing the modern era cowboy hat that relegated the derby to a city hat. Folks in the early days of the west wore the derby as that is what they wore in the city before they began the trek out west. Once they saw the utility of a Stetson western hat it relegated the short brimmed derby back to city/town life.

 

[Art Hat1]

So this hat came in today, the one I mentioned in post 23 (Also posted in the New Hat thread). Might be a bit more Sinatra than Bogey, but i I like it. Certainly good for Jazz concert anyway!

 

[deadlyhandsome]

This is a hat that @T Jones is making for me (brim binding is coming). If the hat was in your size, whatever size that may be, what would you guess the brim width to be? Just a fun question, nothing serious and based on just the photo and not knowing any of the hat’s specifics.

 

[T Jones]

This is a hat that @T Jones is making for me (brim binding is coming). If the hat was in your size, whatever size that may be, what would you guess the brim width to be? Just a fun question, nothing serious and based on just the photo and not knowing any of the hat’s specifics.


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Is there a prize if we get if we guess correctly?

 

[belfastboy]

This is a hat that @T Jones is making for me (brim binding is coming). If the hat was in your size, whatever size that may be, what would you guess the brim width to be? Just a fun question, nothing serious and based on just the photo and not knowing any of the hat’s specifics.

I used fractal geometry, triangulation, and throwing chicken bones and came up 3 1/8"

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[GHT]

I used fractal geometry, triangulation, and throwing chicken bones and came up 3 1/8"

Three and one eighth? Are you sure it was chicken bones that you threw, three and one eighth sounds more like turkey bones to me!

 

[belfastboy]

It was a Costco chicken....they big!

Three and one eighth? Are you sure it was chicken bones that you threw, three and one eighth sounds more like turkey bones to me!

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Is there a prize if we get if we guess correctly?

It was a Costco chicken....they big!

You are missing the point. If the hat was in YOUR size, based on the proportions shown, what would you guess the brim width to be. For instance, Joe @Blare is a size 6 ⅞ and he might guess that if the hat in the photo was his size the brim width might be 2 ½” based on the proportions. I’m not suggesting you guess the actual width of the brim (You two would have a hugely unfair advantage there).

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

This is a hat that @T Jones is making for me (brim binding is coming). If the hat was in your size, whatever size that may be, what would you guess the brim width to be? Just a fun question, nothing serious and based on just the photo and not knowing any of the hat’s specifics.


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2 7/8” at a 7 1/8-1/4

 

[Mighty44]

In a 7 1/8 I would guess 2 5/8 brim.

This is a hat that @T Jones is making for me (brim binding is coming). If the hat was in your size, whatever size that may be, what would you guess the brim width to be? Just a fun question, nothing serious and based on just the photo and not knowing any of the hat’s specifics.


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[T Jones]

Imagine the hat with either a mid-ribbon or a thin ribbon. That would change the optics and give the illusion of larger proportions, like a taller crown and a wider brim. A wider ribbon would give the opposite illusion, even though the actual proportions remain exactly the same.