Can Anyone Identify this Hat ?

[m4000]

ALl I know is that it is referred to as a Stetson hat in the Biographies of The Byrds.

 

[hatophile]

I don't know what it is, other than a pork-pie with wider brim, but it looks very much like the one Robby Robertson is wearing in this photo of the Band.

 

[m4000]

I have also seen the drummer with The Hollies wear something similar.

 

[hatophile]

Must have been a preferred style for folk-rockers in those days.

 

[Dinerman]

ooks like an overwelt brim edge. Not a pencil curl. Up brim fedora with a deep porkpie crease? Kind of reminds me of the transitional homburg/fedoras popular in the teens and twenties, but porkpied. Then again it could be a '60s wool felt. Very hard to say without more pics, or interior pictures, which I'm sure probably just don't exist.

 

[Mobile Vulgus]

Reminds me more of a style reminiscent of pre-fedora days. Like the sort of hat that was worn between 1850 and the 1900s. You'll see many civil war soldiers in hats that look sort of like that first one above.

 

[hatophile]

It's almost like a squashed version of a Robert E Lee hat.