Indy's fedora and other dress hats

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Posted by Steve from ppp-135.COL.cableone.net on August 05, 1999 at 08:11:05:

I've been watching a few old movies lately, and all seem to feature people wearing hats. No surprise of course. I have noticed one thing though, and that is that most of the fedoras worn all have narrow brims. And of course if you look through a hat catalog you will notice that most dress hats sport a relatively narrow brim. For a long time I felt that there was something different about Indy's fedora and of course its the fact that his has a wide brim.(relatively speaking) I wonder if this was common back in the 30's?
Theres something else. Was Indy a trendsetter in wearing his fedora with the clothes he commonly wore while on his adventures? After all the fedora is a dress hat commonly worn with suits. I remember watching an old Twilight Zone and one of the characters was a man wearing khaki work clothes, a leather jacket, and a fedora. So maybe the fedora was an all purpose hat-I don't know. Anybody know anything about this subject?


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