The History And Abuse of The Fedora

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CaptainMarvelous

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Luckily I still have a use for my Ushunka in the wintertime. All I need now is a track suit and I'm full Russian.
Don't worry, when and Ushunka hits level 36 you automatically evolve into Trakzut, the Full Russian Pokemon. It's pretty awesome, base stat total of 600, it's like a pseudo-legendary.
 

RoonMian

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Luckily I still have a use for my Ushunka in the wintertime. All I need now is a track suit and I'm full Russian.

Hah... Sadly I lost mine, the good old Bäfo (German abbreviation of "bear's ****")
 

Deminobody

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I love the balanced approach this article takes when examining the issue. Critical Intel always feels like a lifeboat of journalism in an internet sea of buzz words.
 

Lieju

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I wear a fedora because I like the look of it.

I've always liked hats, they are the only piece of clothing I pay really attention to.
My mum keeps telling me it looks silly, but whatever.
Considering she also tries to get me wear dresses I pay no attention her opinions in this matter.

I only wear my tophat on special occasions, though.

I don't just wear whatever, though.
If I thought I could pull it off I'd totally wear a captains hat everywhere, to complete my 'Captain Haddock' outfit, but that would be a bit silly.

Also I'm not actually a captain.
 

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I wear a fedora because it looks damn fine on me. I wear it with anything - I just throw it on along with a coat when I go out.

I get loads of compliments on it, probably because it's quite unusual (I'm a woman, and it seems to be more common for men to wear hats around here, particularly more traditionally "male" styles like the fedora).

The only other person I know who regularly wears a fedora is my dad. It's always been his signature thing - he owns several in different colours to go with different outfits. He's also about as far away from being a follower of fashion or an internet nerd as it's possible to be. Dude's seriously old fashioned.

NB: I'm talking about proper fedoras here, not trilbies. It annoys me more than it should when people conflate the two.
 

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I could wear a fedora, mostly because I look great in a suit (I have the BMI and body type for most formal wear, even though I hate actually wearing it).
The problem is:
1) I don't like wearing hats (yes, you can dance if you want to, har har)
2) The kind of suit that a fedora works with is not the kind of suit worn today (not around here anyway)

That, and I don't really associate a single article of clothing with something, unless it's ridiculous (like the 6th Doctor's first coat). The Fedora just isn't Indiana Jones without the whip, vest or shirt.
 

Krantos

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Is this a thing?

This is thing?

I guess this is a thing.


I have two hats.

One these:

and one of these:


Why do I wear them? Because I like them. The first is a good every day hat. The second keeps the sun and rain off my head when I go hiking/kayaking/ or just when it happens to be raining.

If you want to wear a hat for a different reason, who am I to judge, but... really I think you might be a tad pretentious if you're doing it to make a statement.

Also "If you're going to wear a hat [at least get is sized and have a color match your appearance]". Wow, way to be...

I don't even know what that is. I just know I don't like it. Why don't you were what you want and let the rest of us wear what we want. K. We didn't ask for the fashion police.

Aside from that it was an interesting article.
 

Supdupadog

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This article is totally right.

If you try wearing the fedora in Pokemon X/Y with a dingy parka, your character looks like a putz.

Come on people, the power of the fedora demands you put some effort in your appearance.
 

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RoonMian said:
My mother just recently gave me a sequined trilby with a bright flower pattern for my birthday/carnival. It is more than informal enough to not require a suit. I haven't found the balls to wear it in public yet, though :D
Are you a boy or a girl? That sounds hard to pull off.
 

RoonMian

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Lazule said:
RoonMian said:
My mother just recently gave me a sequined trilby with a bright flower pattern for my birthday/carnival. It is more than informal enough to not require a suit. I haven't found the balls to wear it in public yet, though :D
Are you a boy or a girl? That sounds hard to pull off.
Im a 250 lbs, 6'3" guy with a beard that would make any Taliban proud... :D
 

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So... Basically, you shouldn't wear a fedora without the rest of the outfit? (suit, tie and tommy gun)

I used to wear one in the beginning when I lost my hair, against the cold.
 

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Concerning the fact that geeks tend to run counter to "classy" menswear, I'd like to oppose the living example of Vint Cerf, one of the forefathers of our current little technological cocoon. Guy works day-in and day-out with super-casual "shirt, jeans and relaxed suit jacket" types, and he insists on rocking the three-piece suit. If anything, Cerf has the kind of class that would allow him to ace the fedora.

Otherwise, I completely agree. Hats are being generally abused by a number of subcultures. The fedora tends to get a pass because it's now become a bit of a "Collegiate Artsy Type" accessory, or the type of clothing item Mad Men fans tend to flock to because Don Draper rocks one. Also consider Walter White's Porkpie. I don't know about you guys, but the year Heisenberg's Porkpie hat entered the public consciousness, my campus was *flooded* with would-be Cranstons that were twenty years too young to pull off the look.

It could be worse, though. The fedora still isn't the top hat, which has been shrunken back down to its feminine "pill hat" concept and generally Goth-ified to Hell and back, when it isn't worn by guys who deluded themselves into thinking they looked like Slash.

Personally, I stick to a toque in the winter and a soft bill cap in the summer. I'd honestly go bare, but having severe genetic predispositions towards early complete baldness makes it so I have to cover myself at nearly all times. If I don't have something on, on top, even inside, I continuously feel like my surroundings' heating bill needs to be paid ASAP. All my body heat escapes from there.