JFK's Cavanagh

Secret Service?
Oh, YOU were thinking the Nazi SS!! Ooops.

 

I really like those pics of JFK and his hat(s). Especially the one in the presidential box at a game. I also like the last two photo's where it shows the difference in generations, meaning the wider brim vs the stingy. Excellelnt photos FedoraFan112390!

 

Great pics!

The first one looks like he's on a tiny (or invisible) Blackberry. Let the time-traveling hoax begin!

 

In our country always saw JFK like a pleasing and agreeable person, I think He looked fine with any hat.

 

Based on his coiffure, and the fact that he seemed to hold the hat most of the time, I would guess he wasn't a hat wearer at all.

 

Seems to me likely that he wore a hat like everybody else, except when it suited his purpose to pose without one to display his hair (so as to emphasize his "youthfulness" and "vigor") and that as usual the media reported the narrative rather than the facts.

Is it just me but is he wearing elevator shoes?

 

That should be, "vigah".

 

Is it just me or in this photo you can actually hint the Cavanagh logo in the liner?

 

What are the dates on these photos? I was just digging through Hatless Jack again, and noticed that the Cavanagh was given to Kennedy in September 1963. If these are all of the Cavanagh, then they are from September to November of that year.

American Heritage has a bit more information about the Cavanagh presentation, including the note that he carried the hat around for two weeks. Still, he apparently only had the Cavanagh for two to three months before he was killed. I haven't quite figured out what to make of the Secret Service agent's comments about stopping by the hat store. Hatless Jack makes the point that the American hat industry struggled to get him to be seen in public in hats. The Cavanagh wasn't the first hat presentation to him.

Brad

 

April 22, 1961 during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2011/01/18/jfk-ike-phone
I like Ike's grey looks to be OR style hat.

 

Okay, so he did have a Cavanagh prior to the gift hat. Good to know, thanks.

Brad

 

Maybe it was poor grammar in my original post, but it was the Secret Service agent who dropped by the store to purchase a hat for himself (NOT JFK who dropped by the store).

 

Aha, thanks, that clears it up for me. I just misunderstood.

Brad

 

It begs the question, though, "Why have a hat if you're not going to wear it?" It's not that the hatting industry had enough influence with him that they could convince him to carry one everywhere he went. Curious situation.

Brad