What Type of Hat is This?

Lies.

You buy a hat like that, I bet you get a free bowl of soup.

It looks good on you though.

Word.

Impressive This mistake is also quite common in Blues Brothers lore

"Although in many places Jake and Elwood's hats are described as being 'Porkpie' Hats, they are actually 'Fedora' Hats. Porkpies were a squatter, flatter hat also favored by a lot of blues and jazz musicians in the 50's."

it's a good thing it's a fedora, because as it turns out, no one likes to see a man in a handsome pork pie hat.

wait wait waits, that is a busted ass fedora, as broken as tom's larynx

i got a beaten brown stetson fedora, with a slightly narrower brim than ole golden tonsils there, now gray with playa dust. but it's not a pork pie. not every man can wear a pork pie, but every man should wear a hat (sometimes i wish we still smoked pipes too) apork pie and a skinny tie is the fuckin bomb if your roland turk or the bass player for bad manners.


A pork pie hat, or trilby, is a felt hat, dating from the middle 19th century, much the same as a fedora, but with a flattened top. It gets its name from its resemblance to a pork pie. The brim on a pork pie hat is generally on the smaller side, and is worn up, though it can be worn down in the front. The hats come in straw varieties as well.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_pie_hat

i am old enuf to know my muthafuckin hats, sortorial bastard that i am


but i don't know how to put a photo into the box here.

lot's o' nice pork pie's thru google images, and lots of nice pie here on SG and GH, good housekeeping


how do i put a shot in here from the web?

I own a pork pie hat. It's actually a really nice hat; I bought it from a hat store in Georgetown. However, it looks ridiculous on me. I've never even worn it out. Despite Jason's sage advice, I may buy a fedora.

i think that i need photographic evidence before i believe this.

on a side note I prefer derby or bowler hats.

I had the same issue but I was bold enough to wear it out. Things were going good until someone said it reminded them of Seinfeld when George started wearing a fedora.

That is not a fedora, nor is it a pork pie. It is a trilby. In addition trilbys are not pork pies. Pork pies are arguably a kind of trilby. This hat is not one of them.

Wikipedia notwithstanding, a fedora is not a trilby, nor is a trilby a tyrolean hat.

Fedora: Broad brim, usually turn in back, with a split or diamond crown and a pinch.

That hat doesn't have a broad brim.

Pork Pie: Narrow brim turned up in back or all around, never down, no pinch, flat crown.

This hat is pinched and creased and does not have a flat crown.

Trilby: Narrow brim, usually turned in back, creased or occasionally diamond crown. Can be pinched or not depending on taste and fashion.

And we have a winner.

i'm not nearly smart enough to argue with that...

*goes to ebay to buy a trilby

Are they pretty common? How easy is it to locate one?

Did you learn that at hat college?

This hat off of Baron Hats looks very similar, the type that Gene Hackman wore in The French Connection... just my few cents...

Go to the link posted above to check it out closer

I minored in chapaugraphy

Sure. Stetson and Dobbs still make a dozen different kinds each, and there's always the thrift store variety. You can also ask for a stingy brim, which is slang, but if you walk into a hat store they'll know what you're talking about. Most surviving hat stores are staffed by people who know fuck all about hats. Hats in the Belfry in Georgetown should have a ton this time of year.

That has a C crown, making it a kind of pork pie.

hell of exactly.

Thanks for the info. Hats in the Belfry was one of the stores I checked out last time, I ended up buying at the one that was (pretty sure it closed since) in Georgetown Mall.

I am thoroughly convinced there is nothing reprobate doesn't know.