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Terms for men's late 19th and 20th century hats can be confusing.
I mean, everybody knows what a top hat looks like, with its tall cylindrical crown and proportionally-narrower brim, and most people can identify the dome-crown/curly-brim shape of a bowler or derby. But all those pinched and divoted and dented hats...folks don't know what to call them! By default, it seems like the average person calls anything with a creased or pinched or divoted crown and a narrow brim a "fedora," and if it has a wide brim, a "cowboy hat." There's nothing really wrong with that, i guess, but i'm big on vocabulary and using specific rather than general terms; why just call it a cowboy hat, when you could more accurately describe it and differentiate whether it's a Rancher or a Cattleman? :)
I've recently reblocked a couple of fedoras for All My Sons, the show we've got going up Saturday, and thought, "I should write about this." Then, i bought a beautiful brand-new pinch-crown block on eBay from the vendor millineryezone, and that clinched it, hence this post.
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I mean, everybody knows what a top hat looks like, with its tall cylindrical crown and proportionally-narrower brim, and most people can identify the dome-crown/curly-brim shape of a bowler or derby. But all those pinched and divoted and dented hats...folks don't know what to call them! By default, it seems like the average person calls anything with a creased or pinched or divoted crown and a narrow brim a "fedora," and if it has a wide brim, a "cowboy hat." There's nothing really wrong with that, i guess, but i'm big on vocabulary and using specific rather than general terms; why just call it a cowboy hat, when you could more accurately describe it and differentiate whether it's a Rancher or a Cattleman? :)
I've recently reblocked a couple of fedoras for All My Sons, the show we've got going up Saturday, and thought, "I should write about this." Then, i bought a beautiful brand-new pinch-crown block on eBay from the vendor millineryezone, and that clinched it, hence this post.
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