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Thoughts on females wearing fedoras

Jedwbpm

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To me women wearing men's hats or accessories looks as odd as men wearing women's clothing. I'd rather see a female in a nice woman's hat. I do like the look of a cow girl though.
Me and my buds yesterday
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My wife on vacation last spring
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You were saying?

Jeff
 

carldelo

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The fedora was originally a woman's hat, so it seems correct and fitting.
However, the use of an apostrophe in the plural 'fedoras' is never correct. ;)
 

Yeps

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Most of my hats look better when gracing the heads of my various female friends.
 

LoveMyHats2

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Me and my buds yesterday
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My wife on vacation last spring
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You were saying?

Jeff

Very nice groups of lads in the first picture. I noticed the bagpipes got traded in for some "warm charm" in a glass!

And of course, the picture of your Wife wearing the Fedora, priceless!
 

job

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I guess the image in my mind at the time was of cheap little stingy brimmed hats tilted way back on the head of young ladies. So I will say that it must be what your wearing and how your wearing it. Some ladies look good in a mans hat.
 

fmw

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I think men's fedora might be a misnomer. I believe men adopted it from women and, of course, women look a lot better in them than we do.
 

ShortAndCashed

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I was giving a female friend advice on wearing fedoras the other day, as she tells me she can't "pull one off." She has very long, thick, wavy hair, and I told her that was probably the problem. Straight or curly hair, preferably a tapered crown makes a ladies head look great.
 

Terry "The Hat"

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My wife is rather attractive (if I may say so) and looks great in a hat. I'm about to order a fedora or two off of Ebay for her. We just talked about it the other day and I still have to measure her head. I'm sure she will fall in the teeny weeny club and I should be able to pick up a couple of real vintage hats for a song on the bay.

Here is a picture (hatless) at her daughter's wedding back in June. She always strikes a pose when she sees a camera and I think she'll look great in a nice fedora!
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mattface

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My sweetie always looks better in my hats than I do.


More Jenny in my new stetson 3x by mattface, on Flickr
She's got quite a collection of vintage women's hats, but we're also on the lookout for a nice fedora for her. She's got a tiny head, so that actually kinda helps as the tiny hats seem to be somewhat plentiful on the vintage market.
 

Edward

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Depends on the hat, really. I've seen Britney (not to single her out, but she's one of the few young people's pop stars and the likes to whom I can actually put a name these days) wearing some ghastly looking cloth buckets on her head that really don't flatter her. On the other hand, as I believe I said in the original thread, Gwynneth Paltrow really pulled it off as Polly in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.

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I would just guess, people started to get a bit nasty, or, too many arguments?

Combination, as I recall, of some photos that pushed the envelope a little and the usual passive-aggression that sort of thing can provoke in some quarters.
 

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