Poll: Does anyone (feminist, gamer, SJW, atheist) really find Fedoras attractive/cool?

[Pyrian]

For a brief moment in time they got popular. ... Then people started hating them.

That's pretty much how it always works. Anything popular gets the haterz. Mild popularity gets the highest number of haterz, while truly high popularity gets the most fervent. I have more sympathy with the latter; huge trends can be nigh inescapable. But the widespread hatred of mild, harmless trends is kind of mystifying. A few people wear hats, get over it.

EDIT: Heh, just realized my profile pic has one, even though I almost never wear them anymore.

 

[DementedSheep]

It's just a hat. I'm fairly neutral on it though it dose look a bit weird if you wear one with really scruffy clothing.

 

[RealRT]

Guy here. Fedoras are, simply put, awesome. They are a symbol of a time long gone, when Art Deco was all the rage, you had to go illegal to get some alcohol and everybody dressed classy. To me it's possibly the best hat of them all.
HOWEVER
Fedoras should be worn with corresponding clothing - a suit, a trenchcoat, a jacket, hell, even a vest if you're desperate. That, and you also need to have your face shape be good for wearing it. If you're a fat neckbeard, you can't just put on a fedora and become an instant avatar of masculinity and class, no sir, you'll be a fat moron who embarasses an awesome piece of headgear by wearing it. I'm pretty fat myself (don't know if I qualify as a neckbeard; a neckbeard and high school moustache is all I can grow, but I have enough sense to shave that shame away from my face) and you won't see me wear a fedora. Leave fedoras to people who can wear them - Humphrey Bogart, Harrison Ford, Michael Jackson, et cetera. And to those who hate modern fedora-wearing pricks: please, leave the poor hat alone and focus on the real evil here: the stupid pricks. It's not the hat's fault those numbnuts think they can wear it.

 

[Evil Moo]

It's just a hat. A hat I happen to own (a nice wide brimmed fedora, not a trilby, which seems to be the more commonly referred to variety). I don't really wear it very much. I haven't done for quite a long time now anyway. I don't care at all about fashion, or whether people think it looks good on me or with my outfit. If I feel like wearing it, I will.

I'm somewhat annoyed by the negative association it has, as well as the fact that I happen to fall into the broad stereotypes related to it, namely being a generally somewhat unshaven white, male, atheist, with no desire for any real social interaction. I can only hope people don't jump to conclusions and brand me as one of those extremist internet assholes if I ever expose too many of these facts about myself at a time...

 

[cleric of the order]

So while I try and keep my nose out of this vicious recent game conspiracy stuff, I keep seeing the word SJW, Neckbeard and GAMER thrown around with these fedora related insults.

Which made me very interested so I did a bit of snooping and found out a lot of people roughly my age seem to be into fedoras, but I dont know its origins at all, so I want to know is it a fashion thing? a reactionary statement or a form of geek/gamer sybolism?


please fill out the poll so I can get an idea on people's feelings about this particular piece of headwear.

(wait what gamer conspiracy, if it's what i think it is just pm me, stop the thread from going belly up)
now as for the statement
I'd chalk this statement up to reddit 4chan things, might have something to do with the "at this moment i am euphoric" meme which was spouted by an invalid from /r/atheism, seen weariing a fedora.
also a lot of socially retarded wear it without any fashion sense, I've seen idiots wear it with white shirts and jeans and generally make a mess of their wardrobe.

you can read about it here
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fedora-shaming

otherwise it's a mutually accepted insult ironically, sfws bark at people for it and so do mras (interestingly enough a lot of them are atheists that joined after atheism+, but of nutters really, but really logical one at that).
you have to give the hat credit.
it brings people together in mutual loathing.
What a beautiful thing.

 

[Kyrian007]

For me it's an occupational thing. I'm a journalist and for the longest time when the company was begrudgingly setting us up with different clothing items (all branded with our stupid logos) I was pushing for fedoras. Most of my colleges laughed, joking about the "press" card stuck in the hatband. My reasoning was we all had "media access" and "press pass" cards that were too big for the normal wallet, and they had given us lanyards for the passes. My conclusion was that the pass in the hatband looks equally silly as the lanyard. Of course the guys on the TV side can't have hats because it spoils their helmet hair and makes the stylists cross. But for those of us on the radio side... A: who cares what we look like, B: it's kind of anachronistic (like our medium,) and C: on the odd occasion when we are doubling a report on TV it provides a decently stylish visual cue that we are doing team coverage (which is branding the company likes to push in promos and at events.)

I talked our company into buying our team a dozen or so fedoras. Not because I particularly wanted one, but because before the meeting where we were to discuss company shirts or jackets and the like I had bet some of the TV photogs I could convince the company to buy us something silly or weird.

I got a free hat and like $20. All thanks to the fedora.

 

[Maraskeen]

Voted 'just a hat'. I'm neutral about it- I think it's possible for people to pull it quite well, providing that they have a face that allows them to wear hats, and dress in a way that doesn't clash with it much.
(For the sake of exactitude, though, I'll add that I live in a country where fedoras haven't become 'a thing', and I've never heard it being connoted negatively outside of the internet. Also, I don't normally give a rat's ass about what people are wearing. I'll compliment colours and forms if they catch my eye, but that's about the limit of my implication in others' fashion sense.)

Fedoras are like short hair for a woman.

Except that there are numerous ways a woman can wear short hair, while fedoras don't have much variation from one another outside of colour and fabric... Are you talking about cropped hair?

 

[o_O]

The hat is fine, the stuff you see it worn with tends not to be.

People say you need a suit; not so. Old style hat needs old style clothes. It's how Indiana Jones gets away looking all scruffy; everything else is still in the '50s. Button down shirt and slacks.

 

[bjj hero]

I see someone in a fedora and immeditely think attention seeker.

I will not be wearing one.

 

[Ryallen]

I think Johnny Depp looked kinda cool in one in the movie "Public Enemies." Other than that, I don't really have an opinion either way. I had a friend who wore one, but I didn't really give it much notice.

 

[AT God]

I like fedoras in media for the most part. In games where you can customize your character's appearance, I often try and find one to wear because I think they look cool on the sort of characters I generally use when given the opportunity. I also think that the fedora/trilby and suit look is nice, I really like playing games like Mafia 2 and LA Noire because that kind of dress is common. In reality, I think most people who wear fedoras look stupid. I think most kinds of hats look silly in general and a fedora/trilby really requires a lot to pull off, otherwise you look like someone who is just crying out for attention. I think when I see older people wearing business casual clothes and a nice hat it looks okay but I think fedoras and trilby hats require an age minimum and a dress code to look at all acceptable. I got a fairly nice one for Christmas one year because I couldn't think of anything else to ask for and immediately regretted it, this was before fedoras were so comically stigmatized. I think anything more than a baseball cap looks like a cry for attention when it isn't being worn by numerous other people, that's why I think fedoras and other fancy hats should remain in gangster movies.

 

[freaper]

Depends on the organism that broods underneath the hat. If it has been growing body hair for longer than 25 years I'm not opposed to the idea of it donning a trilby.

 

[BakaSmurf]

I myself own a wide-brimmed "mobster" style fedora, however unlike most as I am led to believe, I treat it as formal wear and thus only wear it when it is accompanying my pea coat (which apparently invokes the image of a 1920's mobster, a look I'm told I pull off well for someone my age) and a dress shirt w/ tie at the very least.

To be frank, when I see "hipster" types wearing a fedora as everyday wear with a hoodie/denim overalls I cannot help but think less of them for it. No, it doesn't make you look suave or sophisticated, it makes you look like an asshole with a shitty fashion sense.

 

[Fijiman]

If you're wearing it with a nice suit or at least reasonably nice looking clothes then it's fine, but if you wear it with jeans and a t-shirt then you just look like an idiot trying to be cool.

 

[renegade7]

Common misconception. Indiana Jones wore a fedora, the hat most people are talking about is a trilby.

If -and only if- you are that guy on White Collar (and in all honest, Matt Bomer could probably get away with just about anything) or otherwise similarly dressed. It's not casual attire: you wear it with a suit, and only with a suit, and only when you're outside. Also, you should be clean-shaven and be wearing your hair short. Otherwise, you may as well be wearing a fez for how sophisticated it will make you look...scratch that, at least a fez could make for an amusing talking point.

Honestly, I think in general trilbies work much better for women than for men. Unfortunately it's become popular with sorority girls who are desperately trying to distance themselves from the stereotype they will inevitably fulfill during the next spring break.