Which Presidents Wore Hats>?

danofarlington · Jan 13, 2011

Mobile Vulgus said:
Maybe Tom Mix thought he was Calvin Coolidge!

monbla256 · Jan 13, 2011

They were BUDDIES

Herzen · Jan 13, 2011

I had the opportunity of handling a couple of FRD's hats back when I worked for the NPS, including one of his inaugural toppers. I'm not sure of his size (I'm sure I could find it somewhere on the internet), but they seemed rather small to me. Maybe 6 7/8? I remember being mildly surprised because he always looked rather leonine in photographs.

Edit: I did the search and found a source that says his hat size was 7 3/8. Don't know why they seemed so small to me.

TheLibrarian · Jan 13, 2011

Mobile Vulgus said:
There are photos of every president since the 1860s in a hat of one kind or another. Presidents before that were in eras when hats were ubiquitous but were also in an era when photos of them out-of-doors and in casual situations couldn't exist -- simply because photography didn't get invented until the mid 1830s.

Of course, there is also my favorite president, who probably couldn't have worn a hat if he wanted to. As the saying goes, "either hat or hair," and Van Buren went with the hair.

(Actually, he's looking kind of subdued in this photograph. Sometimes The Old Fox of Kinderhook went really big on the sides.)

Mobile Vulgus · Jan 13, 2011

LOL. YEah cutting hair was not nearly the art it is today!

In fact, all the way until the 1950s, men's hair was only cut at length. There was no idea about feather cutting men's hair. It was only cut once it got too long. So, if your hair tended to get real thick and helmet-like, well that is what you were stuck with. Or if you hair tended to have major body waves, well that was that. This is why you see photos of the early 1800s and early 1900s and sometimes men's hair seem so wild.

Today when you get a hair cut your barber or stylist will cut your hair at the same length all over your head. So today our hair is much thinner in that way. Back then they just cut off the ends and that was that.

DanielJones · Jan 13, 2011

Coolidge at a baseball game

As a natty fisherman

Formal

He was a President of many hats.

Herbert Hoover is another natty fisherman

in a topper

great Optimo Crown Panama

And a well worn chapeau.

Cheers!

Dan

FedoraFan112390 · Mar 17, 2011

Photos of US Presidents wearing hats?

Could people post pictures of Presidents wearing Fedoras, Homburgs or Top Hats?

Sam Craig · Mar 17, 2011

This is an incredible thread in so many ways ... certainly one of the best ever developed in the Lounge and I hope everyone gets the time to work through it all.

First, thanks to everyone who continues to stay above the political nastiness that has taken over our culture.

Second, Way to go on the great research that brought in so many wonderful presidential hat pics.

Finally, Those of us who remember the '60s, who remember "the wet head is dead" realize why Kennedy was not fond of hats.
The man made his longer, non-oiled top hair his trademark ... swipe the hair bangs back as you talk ... RFK did the same thing, even more so.
Remember that image.
OK, now, remember when you had longer hair and didn't use "a little dab" and remember how your hair looked when you took off your hat.

HAT HEAD!

That is going to create negative photo ops that really haunt you.

That is what happened to the presidential hat.

Sam

hatophile · Mar 17, 2011

You see, though, now that most of us don't have that great sweep of hair on top, we are perfectly content to wear our hats. My wife mentioned just last night how sharp I look when wearing hats, but she had to go and blow it by saying "of course it's to hide your balding head". Thanks, dear.

Sam Craig · Mar 17, 2011

Mine isn't thinning, but over the years it has gotten courser ... my Bride tells me that is because the gray ones are courser than the rest.
Whatever.
I had a talk with my barber a few years ago and he suggested I either start cutting my hair really short or stop wearing hats.
That's all it took.
The REALLY short hair is easier to take care of, too, and I save a fortune on NOT buying combs!

Sam

thebroker · Mar 17, 2011

I am a big fan of presidential biographies, and recently picked up a couple at a used book store in Knoxville, TN. Truman and Eisenhower are among my favorites, and I was delighted to see that the cover photos on both books feature the Presidents with hats.

FedoraFan112390 · Mar 17, 2011

Are there any pix of:

Wilson in a homburg
FDR in his fedora
Ike in his homburgs and fedora
LBJ in a fedora or stetson

150719541 · Mar 18, 2011

I do not have a picture, but remember when was a little boy some Abraham Lincoln photograph with his great hat, was amazing to me ¡¡¡

FedoraFan112390 · Apr 23, 2011

FedoraFan112390 · Apr 23, 2011

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(Young Ronald Reagan)

Mr. 'H' · Apr 23, 2011

FedoraFan112390 said:

What was THIS about?! Weird photo....

I love the color palette here in the first one:

FedoraFan112390 said:

LBJ looks great in this.... (is that post-presidency?)

Mr. 'H' · Apr 23, 2011

Tiller said:
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Imagine the cajones required to pull that off now? That's like wearing a tricorn.

Mr. 'H' · Apr 23, 2011

The elephant in the room?

Bush 43 wears his western headgear better than most:

FedoraFan112390 · Apr 23, 2011

Mr. 'H' said:
What was THIS about?! Weird photo....

I love the color palette here in the first one:

LBJ looks great in this.... (is that post-presidency?)

The one with the sideburns, yes, that's LBJ in September 1972.

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