Fedoras in 1912?

[LTDAVIS]

So I love the Indiana Jones movies and I love hats and I love his hat. Another thing I love is history. I've thought about this for awhile but since I have a membership now I can ask. In the Last Crusade we see a young Indy receive his iconic fedora in 1912. My question is would a "modern" fedora like his have existed at that period. I know fedoras as we know them and the period we associate with them wasn't always like that. Fedoras in the early days were very different from the ones we know that popped up after ww1. I also know Herbert Johnson poets have been around for awhile. What are your thoughts.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

So I love the Indiana Jones movies and I love hats and I love his hat. Another thing I love is history. I've thought about this for awhile but since I have a membership now I can ask. In the Last Crusade we see a young Indy receive his iconic fedora in 1912. My question is would a "modern" fedora like his have existed at that period. I know fedoras as we know them and the period we associate with them wasn't always like that. Fedoras in the early days were very different from the ones we know that popped up after ww1. I also know Herbert Johnson poets have been around for awhile. What are your thoughts.

If you dig around here a bit you’ll find a lot of information relevant to your question. Look at this fedora as a start:

https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/1910s-stetson-expo-medal.95992/

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Some helpful threads:

https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/pre-1900-hat-ads-non-stetson.57397/

https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/vintage-fedoras-by-decade.61698/

https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/were-fedoras-worn-during-ww1.24706/

All those threads, and more, deserve a bump.

 

[Just Daniel]

Those were fun links. The “Indy” style definitely fits in the 40s, but checking those ads and pics on the links from Brent above make it clear Fedora type hats go way back.

Pretty cool.

 

[jlee562]

See also this turn of the century Stetson catalog:

John B. Stetson Company catalog | Hagley Digital Archives

digital.hagley.org

The Fedora hat (as in the character in LC), is probably a little incongruous for the time period but certainly not out of the realm of possibility.