I have not seen the video posted by JLee, I will see if I can find it. I may have to give the telescope method that JW showed me years ago a try. Something that I personally like in a pork pie is a flat top on the crown. I have seen other telescope methods that essentially use a smaller block or even a balloon to do the telescope and those give a more rounded crown.
Don't tell that to the several English judges who got into a lot of trouble a few years ago for watching a lot of it in their private chambers, perhaps they just needed to be sure.... Back on the merry-go-round we go!
Mine porkpie have a flat brim like buster keaton about 2 1/7" widhdt the telescopic creaase crown isnt so low like that of buster a couple of pages ago i posted mine, here i post again.I've spent a little time over the last two or three days reading here and there on the 'Net about Pork Pie hats and what some people do and don't consider to be "typical" characteristics. Regardless of whether the hat is made from fur felt or straw, two characteristics appear to define the hat--1) a relatively low-crowned Telescope crease, and 2) a narrow brim turned up all the way around the crown. After all, the style was named because the hat(s) resembled the English meat pie of the same name.
That said, there are a few "famous" Pork Pie hats that weren't restricted to these two characteristics. Buster Keaton's Pork Pie had a slightly wider and flatter brim than most, but many still consider it a Pork Pie. Many call Gene Hackman's hat in The French Connection a Pork Pie, but it had a pinch and shallow side dents at the front of the crown. Still a Pork Pie? How about the hat Carroll O'Connor wore as Archie Bunker on All in the Family? Low(ish) crown with a Teardrop crease, slightly wider brim turned up all the way around. Pork Pie? Trilby? Fedora?
And you sit look damn good in them.
I too wear Pork Pies on a regular basis.
I've spent a little time over the last two or three days reading here and there on the 'Net about Pork Pie hats and what some people do and don't consider to be "typical" characteristics. Regardless of whether the hat is made from fur felt or straw, two characteristics appear to define the hat--1) a relatively low-crowned Telescope crease, and 2) a narrow brim turned up all the way around the crown. After all, the style was named because the hat(s) resembled the English meat pie of the same name.
That said, there are a few "famous" Pork Pie hats that weren't restricted to these two characteristics. Buster Keaton's Pork Pie had a slightly wider and flatter brim than most, but many still consider it a Pork Pie. Many call Gene Hackman's hat in The French Connection a Pork Pie, but it had a pinch and shallow side dents at the front of the crown. Still a Pork Pie? How about the hat Carroll O'Connor wore as Archie Bunker on All in the Family? Low(ish) crown with a Teardrop crease, slightly wider brim turned up all the way around. Pork Pie? Trilby? Fedora?
That Wikiwand page was one of the ones I read.
As you wrote earlier, we know one when we see it. I think I'm personally not in favor of calling a hat with it's a brim snapped down a pork pie simply because in my mind that snapped brim signifies a Trilby or a Fedora regardless of the crease. But that's just me, and if/when I see someone wearing a Telescope crease with a snapped brim I'm not about to argue whatever they call it.
Actually, that looks incredible!
If you're attempting a replica of one of Buster Keaton's hats I think you'll need to lower the crown quite a bit more. That said, I like your hat as you've creased it.
Yeah i lowered that i could, its the closer ican make a replica, is my first try, with practice, maybe i reach that level , ah and more fedoras lol. thanks for the compliment.Buster Keaton is reported to have hand creased more than 1,000 hats during his career...
...and he clearly had a specific "look" he wanted. I don't know how he got hats with such low crowns to stay on his head, but he made it work.
If you're attempting a replica of one of Buster Keaton's hats I think you'll need to lower the crown quite a bit more. That said, I like your hat as you've creased it.
