Show us their hats!

[M Hatman]

Dated 1928. Very Large format photo, roughly 10" X 11".
Really good example of a BOP style hat.

 

[CadillacMan]

one of my favs

 

[jeffgarf]

Not what you think of when you hear about gangsters in hats.

 

[GHT]

When you have just lost a world record $8Billion in a divorce settlement, a cap is all you can just about afford.

 

[jeffgarf]

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When you have just lost a world record $8Billion in a divorce settlement, a cap is all you can just about afford.

According to my brother who is a cap guy in the way I am a hat guy, some of those caps can be up there in price with our fine hats.

 

[GHT]

Sir Terence David John Pratchett, the creator of the hugely successful Discworld series of novels, he became Britain’s best-selling author of adult fiction, writing over fifty wildly successful titles in his lifetime.
After being knighted in 2009 for services to literature, Pratchett decided a knight should have a proper sword. He dug up 81 kilograms of iron ore, smelted it himself in a makeshift kiln, added some pieces of meteorite, thunderbolt iron, then had a local blacksmith turn it into a blade. He kept the sword in a secret location, concerned the police might consider it an illegal weapon.
His personal motto was the Latin phrase Noli timere messorem, which translates to: "Don't fear the reaper". He was a big fan of the band Blue Oyster Cult, who wrote the song "Don't Fear The Reaper," he also featured the character of Death prominently in his books.

 

[jeffgarf]

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Sir Terence David John Pratchett, the creator of the hugely successful Discworld series of novels, he became Britain’s best-selling author of adult fiction, writing over fifty wildly successful titles in his lifetime.
After being knighted in 2009 for services to literature, Pratchett decided a knight should have a proper sword. He dug up 81 kilograms of iron ore, smelted it himself in a makeshift kiln, added some pieces of meteorite, thunderbolt iron, then had a local blacksmith turn it into a blade. He kept the sword in a secret location, concerned the police might consider it an illegal weapon.
His personal motto was the Latin phrase Noli timere messorem, which translates to: "Don't fear the reaper". He was a big fan of the band Blue Oyster Cult, who wrote the song "Don't Fear The Reaper," he also featured the character of Death prominently in his books.

My wife and son's favorite author!

 

[GHT]

The UK television channel ITV4 are screening all the early Bond movies. Last night I sat and watched: "From Russia With Love." First released in 1963, the film quality was excellent.
In one scene Bond wear's a Stingy brim, quite a generous brim though.

Forty years later Connery turns up in the movie: "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen." His rugged appearance enhances the character: Allan Quatermain, perfectly. The brim has grown!

So different from that of Professor Henry Jones, in the houndstooth, bucket hat that he wore in the 1989 Last Crusade film.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

On this date, January 15th, 1844 was the birth of Thomas Coleman Younger. He was the seventh of fourteen children.

I’ve always liked this style of hat.

His brother James Hardin Younger would share his birthdate in 1848. They were running out of dates & months.

Certified photos of Jim wearing a hat are rare.

Their mother was Bursheba Leighton Fristoe (1816-1870) a direct descendant of Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee, the American Revolutionary War officer & hero, & the father of Robert E. Lee.

Their father Henry Washington Younger (1810-1862) was robbed & killed while trying to post a “cash Peace Bond” to Union troops to stay neutral in the conflict. Cole, Jim, & John would join the Confederate cause soon after finding their father’s body.

 

[GHT]

When it comes to politicians wearing hats, nobody does it better that FDR:

Although I have to say that JFK does wear his with aplomb:

Our politicians are much too reserved to be photographed in a titfer. (Titfer: Cockney rhyming slang: ***-for-tat...Hat.) Not so our young royals. Kate & William in Calgary.

 

[bmw1976]

Not what you think of when you hear about gangsters in hats.

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This immediately made me think of the young Clemenza that would have been based in the same timeframe. Clemenza, however, looks much better in his bowler with a slightly longer brim.

 

[shopkin]

Kate can get away with it. But Willy is showing hos dorky side.

 

[GHT]

Kate can get away with it. But Willy is showing hos dorky side.

Dorky! That's a tad unkind, but I do understand the empathy. William is uncomfortable and it shows, furthermore his missus' hat compliments her outfit much better. But Dorky?
Tell you what, when William's Dad was a mere prince he was photographed in Australia wearing a fedora, a leather one. Dorky? It must be in the genes. (I was tempted to say in the jeans, but it might have been just too subtle.)



To emphasise the point, when your mother is Princess Anne, the king's sister, it will give you the automatic right to a royal title. However, if your mother eschew's that royal title then you will simply be Mister, as in Mr. Peter Philips. Being a mere mortal like the rest of us means that you can wear a fedora and it will definitely look the part.

 

[GHT]

During a live performance, where he sang: "Are You Lonesome Tonight," Elvis altered the lyrics to the lyrics of the song after spotting a man in the audience with a toupee.

He sang/spoke: "Do you gaze at your bald head and wish you had hair? / Does your hat look better on the chair?"

 

[M Hatman]

Circa 1900

 

[BobHufford]

Caleb Washington Manley, Lead Hill, Arkansas. (1825 - 1910)

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Willie M. “Willie the Wimp” Stokes, Jr.

 

[RossRYoung]

 

[BobHufford]

Frank Lloyd Wright viewing construction of the Guggenheim Museum, 1957.

 

[GHT]

John and Jackie Kennedy walked to JFK’s inauguration ceremony from the White House, January 1961.


Mick Jagger, somehow his top hat just doesn't have the kind of eloquence as JFK.