Hats in the News

[jeffgarf]

Ok, fess up. Which one of you was just in Aspen?! - https://pagesix.com/2026/02/04/soci...-2000-fouquet-toppers-snatched-from-st-regis/

 

[HatsBySam]

Ok, fess up. Which one of you was just in Aspen?! - https://pagesix.com/2026/02/04/soci...-2000-fouquet-toppers-snatched-from-st-regis/

“Master brim-inal”

 

[Edward]

Headline threw me for a minute - I was looking for top hats in the pictures! (Clearly I've absorbed a lot of the Anglo dialect living in England these many years, even if I haven't exactly gone native!)

It also amuses me no end that they chose to suggest that the perp was "attractive looking". But hey, fair enough, really - it's a very common sort of comment in relation to female-presenting perpetrators, so why not for the boys too.

 

[jeffgarf]

Headline threw me for a minute - I was looking for top hats in the pictures! (Clearly I've absorbed a lot of the Anglo dialect living in England these many years, even if I haven't exactly gone native!)

It also amuses me no end that they chose to suggest that the perp was "attractive looking". But hey, fair enough, really - it's a very common sort of comment in relation to female-presenting perpetrators, so why not for the boys too.

Well, the Post is Murdoch-owned, so if toppers is catchy, it stays in the lede. For us Yanks, the Fouquet mention gives it away.

 

[Edward]

Well, the Post is Murdoch-owned, so if toppers is catchy, it stays in the lede. For us Yanks, the Fouquet mention gives it away.

What I think of old Rupe isn't for this site, but all credit to the man he always had a nose for how to sell a story, it's why he's got to the top.

Fouquet does rustle a half forgotten wire in the back of my head - was he the guy that did aged-looking hats with the matchstick in the band?

 

[jeffgarf]

What I think of old Rupe isn't for this site, but all credit to the man he always had a nose for how to sell a story, it's why he's got to the top.

Fouquet does rustle a half forgotten wire in the back of my head - was he the guy that did aged-looking hats with the matchstick in the band?

And patented it!

 

[rogueclimber]

Ok, fess up. Which one of you was just in Aspen?! - https://pagesix.com/2026/02/04/soci...-2000-fouquet-toppers-snatched-from-st-regis/

You couldn't pay me $2000 to take a Fouqet hat...

 

[jeffgarf]

Think they are up on eBay yet? If so, selling at a discount.

 

[hatsRme]

Absolutely heinous crime. The hats, I mean.

 

[Zombie_61]

You couldn't pay me $2000 to take a Fouqet hat...

If anyone attempts to make any such offers, i.e. $2,000 and a free hat, send 'em my way.

 

[Thundercolt]

Not even close to my hats. My hats are MATCHLESS!

 

[RickP]

Hey... chicken feathers and kitchen matches arent cheap! lol

 

[jeffgarf]

I suspect it's all the custom hatters in state - https://nypost.com/2026/04/11/us-ne...lifornia-may-have-been-intentional-officials/

 

[shopkin]

I doubt that anyone in California could take the process from a dead nutria to a hat, or a blank. Preparing the hair and felting is much more difficult and involved than just forming a hat and sticking a ribbon on it.

 

[quikrick]

I doubt that anyone in California could take the process from a dead nutria to a hat, or a blank. Preparing the hair and felting is much more difficult and involved than just forming a hat and sticking a ribbon on it.

I’m pretty sure @jeffgarf was joking.

 

[shopkin]

I’m pretty sure @jeffgarf was joking.

then.... there's this guy.

 

[jeffgarf]

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