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> something small but noticeable—like wearing a fedora—that immediately turns you off forever. There seems to be a thing that some people hate "fedoras". I thi
by denton-scratch 4y ago
> something small but noticeable—like wearing a fedora—that immediately turns you off forever.
There seems to be a thing that some people hate "fedoras". I think it's to do with the "Fedora guy" meme. The hat Jerry Messing appears in is not a fedora; it's a trilby.
A trilby is a hat with a quite narrow brim, and stiffened; it's often woven and patterned. It can be made of just about anything (such as leather). You can't really mess with the brim; it's flipped up at the back and down at the front, and it stays that way.
A fedora is a soft felt hat with a wide brim. The hats worn by both the cops and the robbers in 30's gangster movies are all fedoras. Felt hats are not woven; they're felted, and that means they have to be made of wool or fur (I guess a panama fedora is an exception, but then I think a panama fedora is just a panama hat that is the same shape as a real fedora).
Where I come from, a trilby is associated with racecourse bookies and the criminal fraternity, as well as tacky seaside "kiss-me-quick" hats, made of something like cardboard. Fedoras, on the contrary, are stylish.
They're also very functional. They shed rain like an umbrella, without dumping it down your neck. The only thing wrong with them is that they make a good aerofoil - you have to "hold onto your hats" if it's windy.
- phillipcarter 4y agoThis comment is imperceptible from a parody of a hacker news comment.
- denton-scratch 4y agoIndistinguishable?
- the_only_law 4y agoI think it’s a copypasta but I can’t quite recall.
- nerfhammer 4y agono hits on google; it appears to be original
- onetimeusename 4y agowell it's saved in my copypasta file now
- denton-scratch 4y agoYou are mistaken. If there's someone on the internet that agrees with me, then I'm surprised! I composed it myself, and I didn't refer to other sources. If I quote someone else here, I put it in quotes.
- the_only_law 4y agoYeah I probably mixed it up with something on the same subject.
- oe 4y ago"Actually, it's a trilby" is a point that was made already 10 years ago when fedora hate was at its peak.
- esperent 4y agoImagine there's a meme called "ignorant Ferrari guy" but in the meme he's actually driving a Porsche. That's what the fedora guy meme feels like to anyone who knows anything about hats, so of course this point gets made over and over again.
- brian-armstrong 4y agoIt perfectly captures the original characterization of the meme. I really hope they are in on the joke.
- Jun8 4y agoI usually just upvote and move on, not to add a noisy comment to the discussion; however you comment was so informative and well-written that I felt compelled to comment on it. For those who want to try the fedora, I recommend the “Indiana Jones” look (https://herbertjohnson.co.uk/collections/indiana-jones-collection https://herbertjohnson.co.uk/collections/indiana-jones-colle...). I had one of these but unfortunately the parent’s comment about them being aerofoils is true: lost it to a gust in the Grand Canyon. It fell tantalizingly close to the fence, re-creating the “Let it go!” scene :-)
- danrocks 4y agoThis looks like it has been written by ChatGPT.