Hype! Fedora Club

[The Amazing Lee]

don't forget pointy

yeah, I noticed. my eye hurts.

 

[Noon]

I'm telling the sheriff.

NOON!

That's deputy sheriff to you!



Oh wait...thats not better

 

[The Amazing Lee]

I have this kinda hat:

 

[Noon]

I wish I had boobs so I could pin a badge on em

Ouch!

 

[The Amazing Lee]

That's deputy sheriff to you!



Oh wait...thats not better

Ba-zing.

 

[Immortalfire]

I have this kinda hat:

Dude, were you born with booze in your hand?

 

[The Amazing Lee]

Dude, were you born with booze in your hand?

the glass was melded on to my hand on my 18th birthday.

 

[J. J. Jameson]

Dude, were you born with booze in your hand?

His poor liver

 

[The Amazing Lee]

Poor me. my liver loves it.

 

[Immortalfire]

Alright Lee, that's enough thread de-railing from you today

 

[SoulManX]

People who still wear them...

• WWE Superstar UnderTaker* "Mark Calaway" wears a black Fedora as part of his ring attire
• Journalist and author Jim Knipfel
• Jack Abramoff, the infamous Washington lobbyist, wore a Borsalino fedora to the federal courthouse where he pled guilty.
• Spider-Man and Evil Dead film director Sam Raimi can often be seen wearing a fedora on set.
• It is common today that many Hasidic and Haredi ("Ultra-Orthodox") Jews wear black fedoras.
• Run-DMC, the rap crew, wore black fedoras.
• Larry Campbell, the former mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, is known to be quite fond of wearing a fedora.
• Frank Sinatra, performer of the mid twentieth century and member of the Rat Pack, was often depicted wearing a fedora.
• Bob Dylan, legendary American songwriter, musician, and poet has been wearing a fedora when performing live in the new century.
• Paul Simon wears a fedora on the cover his Negotiations and Love Songs album.
• Tom Landry, Dallas Cowboys NFL coach
• Michael Jackson dons the hat as one of his trademarks.
• Matt Drudge of Drudge Report fame.
• Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, leader of the Chabad Hasidim made this hat especially popular among his followers.
• Adam Savage of the television show MythBusters has worn one in some appearances
• Stephen Thanabalan, Asian Singaporean Model, Journalist regularly sports a Fedora
• Malcolm Allison, the flamboyant soccer manager from the 1970's, was a famous fedora wearer.
• Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant of the University of Alabama wore a fedora made of a fabric woven in a houndstooth check pattern.
• Legendary American Football coach Vince Lombardi
• On NBA Draft night, 1996, Samaki Walker was noticed for wearing an all-white suit with matching fedora
• Richie "La Bamba" Rosenberg, the trombonist from Late Night with Conan O'Brien's house band, The Max Weinberg 7, nearly always dons a white fedora. This hat sometimes makes its way into Conan's comedy routine.
• Members of the pop-punk bank Rancid are often seen wearing a fedora.
• Legendary Z-boy skater Jay Adams often wore a fedora.
• Larry Harvey
• Professor Gunther von Hagens; scientist,inventor and sculptor/artist is never seen in public without his fedora, even while performing anatomical dissections.
• Tom Waits, the distinct singer-songwriter, is often photographed wearing a fedora.
• Mustache Commander of StreetWars.
• The Notorious B.I.G., a rap artist.
• Johnny Depp
• Former San Francisco mayor Wille Brown.
• Ne-Yo
• Investigative journalist Greg Palast.
• Student and young author Charles William Lawless.

 

[SoulManX]

Fictional people who wear them...

• Indiana Jones, the fictional archaeologist and adventurer, is known for his brown fedora and leather jacket.
• Carmen Sandiego almost always appears in a red fedora with matching trench coat.
• Fictional detective Mike Hammer always wears one, with a trench coat.
• Fictional detective Dixon Hill (on Star Trek: The Next Generation) always wears one, with a trench coat.
• In Hollywood movies of the 1940s, actors often wore a fedora, particularly when playing private detectives, gangsters, or other "tough guy" roles. A trench coat was frequently part of the costume, a notable example being Humphrey Bogart's character in Casablanca. The fedora is closely associated with film noir characters, such as Bogart in The Big Sleep and The Maltese Falcon or Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past.
• James Bond actors Sean Connery and George Lazenby wore a fedora when portraying the secret agent. When Roger Moore took over the role, he didn't wear a fedora, although he threw one on the coat rack on several occasions.
• Chip from Disney's 1989 children's cartoon Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, wore a fedora as a trademark.
• In Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, The Phantom of the Opera, the Phantom sometimes wears a black fedora.
• The comic strip hero Dick Tracy wears a yellow one.
• The first costumed comic strip crime-fighter The Phantom (aka Mr Walker) wears a signature trench coat and fedora when walking in town as an ordinary man.
• Clark Kent was often seen wearing one (including in the 1978 feature movie of Superman), though in more recent incarnations it has been absent.
• In the Bowery Boys movies, Slip Mahoney always wore a fedora with the brim folded up.
• New Zealander Sam Neill, an actor, often wore a fedora when portraying fictional paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III.
• In the anime series Hellsing, Alucard is usually seen wearing a red fedora hat.
• Freddy Krueger, the fictional dream mass-murderer is noted for wearing this hat, along with a red and green striped sweater
• Daisuke Jigen, Lupin's marksman in the Lupin III manga and animé, wears a fedora, supposedly as an aid for aiming his gun.
• Also, Inspector Zenigata, ICPO agent sworn to capture Lupin, of the same anime and manga wears the typical detective set of trench coat and fedora
• Tex Murphy, the fictional gumshoe of the 2040s.
• In The Spirit created by Will Eisner, Denny Colt began a life of fighting crime wearing only a small domino mask, blue business suit, fedora hat and gloves for a costume.
• Joey Jeremiah, from the original Degrassi series, always wore a fedora to school. That is, until his teacher yanked it off.
• The comic book superhero/vigilante The Question always wears a fedora (usually blue) with a matching trench coat and suit, and a mask that makes it appear that he has a blank, featureless face. This is referenced in the Watchmen graphic novel, where the character of Rorschach (who was loosely based on The Question) often wears brown fedora along with a brown trenchcoat and his signature ink-blot mask.
• Bill McGovern had his fedora stolen, leading to his untimely demise in Stephen King's Insomnia (novel).
• In the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series, the turtles would often wear fedoras and trenchcoats as disguises when going undercover.
• Jack McCoy has recently started wearing a fedora in episodes of Law & Order.
• Charles "Fat Charlie" Nancy in Neil Gaiman's Novel Anansi Boys also wear a green fedora hat which he acquired from his dad "Mr. Nancy".
• Pipboy from the Fallout series, some times wears a fedora Hat.
• The original DC Comics superhero known as the Crimson Avenger wore a fedora as part of his first costume.
• DC Comics superhero Midnight, a character made in homage to the Will Eisner creation known as The Spirit, wore a fedora.
• Marvel Comics superhero Wolverine often wore a fedora when dressed in civilian clothes in the X-Men Animated Series. The character also wore one in the New X-Men Here Comes Tomorrow storyline.
• Dan Akroyd, John Belushi, and Cab Calloway wore fedora hats as Jake and Elwood Blues and Curtis in the film The Blues Brothers
• The Sandman wore a green business suit, a gasmask, and a fedora for his crime-fighting costume.
• Inspector Gadget wears the standard detective trenchcoat and fedora combination.

 

[SoulManX]

 

[SoulManX]

I had a very nice one that cost me 500 bucks. My ex girlfriend burned it in the fire place. I miss that hat....

 

[Immortalfire]

I had a very nice one that cost me 500 bucks. My ex girlfriend burned it in the fire place. I miss that hat....

Evil woman

 

[The Comedian]

Here's me at the Toronto Zombie walk wearing my fedora. I'm the one near the bottom wearing the black skeleton shirt with the green t-shirt underneath

 

[SoulManX]

Evil woman

Neva tell a woman something is your favorite...I learned that the hard way.

 

[Hudson]

Happy to birthday to me

 

[Immortalfire]

I had my official Indiana Jones fedora on last night while chillin with some friends. One of them commented on my cool John Wayne hat. I clubbed him on the head with a Coke bottle and made him apologize to me and the Indy hat.

John Wayne, indeed.

 

[Immortalfire]

One dude I know make light joke, "hey check out the Indiana Jones hat on Immortalfire..haha"

I point out to him that it is indeed an official Indiana Jones fedora. He is impressed

 

[kytrigger]

I have a black fedora, but my stepfather has a bunch of them. He lives in New Orleans (where I guess they have a lot of famous hat makers or something) an dhas at least a dozen from these different shops. he basically wears one every day.

 

[J. J. Jameson]

Woah! This thread is back from the dead?!

 

[Immortalfire]

Woah! This thread is back from the dead?!

It's never dead, it just naps on occasion.