What is considered a Fedora?

[Victor]

A Panama is a woven hat made in Ecuador. It is hand woven with the fibers of the Toquilla plant. A felt hat can't be a Panama. A Panama could be a Fedora though if it is a Fedora shape. At least that is my understanding.

 

[Matt Deckard]

As for the trilby refference, check out this thread.
http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=2632&highlight=trilby

A panama can be a fedora in shape, though for definition sake not a fedora in a dictionary.

I'd like to keep the definition of a fedora as a felt hat for our sake, though I can still see my self saying "straw fedora", or "cotton fedora".

For clarity sake, a fedora in my opinion is a fur felt by defenition unless you pare the name with another material, then the term fedora refers to the shape.

Like a foam boater. It's not a boater, though it plays one in parades.

 

[Matt Deckard]

Has anyone picked up a leather VAn Helsing yet?

 

[Wolfwood]

Considered it once, some years ago, but the price is a bit steep for a curiosity piece (which it would be for me).

 

[Jack Scorpion]

How about that Oddjob hat in Goldfinger? When's the razorsharp-brim trend going to get rolling?

 

[jamespowers]

How about that Oddjob hat in Goldfinger? When's the razorsharp-brim trend going to get rolling?

That wouldn't be considered a fedora.

 

[Jack Scorpion]

That wouldn't be considered a fedora.

It was described to me once by a policeman as a "deadly weapon." I didn't even know that was a type of hat!

 

[job]

Would a Homburg with a flat brim and a curl still be a Homburg or would it now be a Fedora with a pencil curl. Hmmmmmm.

 

[Lefty]

here's a lot more discussion on the subject

 

[Yeps]

I think it would still be a homburg, although historically the terms are largely interchangeable and subject to the vagaries of style and marketing.

 

[job]

Lefty,

I read some of the tread. Interesting. It seems like everyone agreed that they were no closer to defining a fedora than when they started.