Bingo, if you are talking about real fedoras, then fine.
If you're talking about the trilby that has somehow been renamed a fedora that all the young douchebags wear, then I am afraid we must come to blows.
Please tell me you don't wear a trilby.
Visual Reference:
Fedora.
Trilby.
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I tried to wear a Trilby but it made my head look weirder than normal.
Normally people don't notice how big my head is until they try putting hats on me and the shorter brim of a Trilby just makes me look like the Mekon, in a hat.
The bigger the brim the smaller my head looks (in a Fez I look like an escapee from Easter Island).
Though when I wear a Fedora I tend to get a lot of this (I have a rather hasidic look and demeanor generally so add the hat and ...) :
Oh, thank God.
I didn't want this to become ugly. We can still hang.
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I might have to start wearing some sort of protective head gear until the inner ear problem subsides.
I'm more worried about coming down the stairs in an undignified fashion than looking stylish.
Sadly the only thing I have like that is a 1970's fireman's helmet.
Get one of those novelty cowboy hats.
Or even better, get a motorcycle helmet. Then people will think you have a motorcycle. Or pad out a stormtrooper helmet or something.
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Whips please.
Whips are not a viable fashion accessory, Frink. Unless you are dressing for adventure.
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Well then, I'll just read some different threads.
Tyr and Frink Discuss Whips?
We could even talk about cars, too.
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Sorry, I can't hear you anymore.
I miss you, Frink.
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I used to know a disabled Austrian guy and his parents made him wear a crash helmet all the time.
He had a beard like Matthew Kelly.
Now Matthew Kelly is bald he looks like he is wearing a crash helmet.
Tyrphanax said:
the trilby .......that all the young douchebags wear
007 from the novels and early films would like a word with you. ;-)
That was then.
When I was a kid a trilby was an old man's hat (up there with cloth caps).
Students getting them in charity shops held off their decline.
Now they are seen as a bit schemey.
007 made it work though.
These guys...just... no...
Makes me ashamed to be a young-ish person.
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It's not the hat so much as A) the ensemble including the human being inside and B) the quality.
As I said before classic Trilbys were made to last and when the old guys died their hats hung around Oxfam shops until the Neo-hepcats picked them up.
This prompted a revival in production which resulted in them being made in China for Primark in faux Burberry patterns.
Ideal for the hibee scumbags.
I fully agree, by the way, about the douches ruining the Trilby. Same for the Stingy Brims. I was just goofing because you guys are all with your 007 theme now.
I was very tempted when I was in Chicago recently to go to Optimo, one of the premier hat makers in the U.S., and get a nice Fedora. Had the address and had the hat picked out - but in the end, the douche culture surrounding Fedoras kept me away. I'll eventually make the jump, but I'll first have to make peace with Johnny Depp & Charlie Sheen polluting the Fedora landscape.
A co-worker of mine who is always quick to jump on the latest "I'm not mainstream, I'm a hip outsider" trend is probably the one guy who was most influential in putting me off of getting one. Once I saw it in his office and heard him mention that he and his wife took turns wearing it at a Flaming Lips concert, I knew I'd have to wait another year or so.
David Zayas manages to pull off wearing a Trilby without looking like a jerk.
But it proves my earlier comments about it's head enlarging potential.
whats a stingy Brim?
A hat that won't pick up the check.
what?
Think it through Warb.
Stingy - Less than generous
Brim- (in a hat context) the shelf of material around the outside of the hat.
Put them both together and you get a hat that won't pick up the check.
Bingowings said:
Put them booth together and you get a hat that won't pick up the check.
Put them together in a booth?
Oops!
He meant the Canadian "Booth".
I'm glad to see that the ruination of the trilby is a supported stance here as well.
Though I guess that was to be expected.
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