A fedora, which in this case has been pinched at the front and being worn pushed back on the head, with the front of the brim bent down over the eyes.

The fedora is a soft felt hat that is creased lengthwise down the crown and pinched in the front on both sides. It was invented in the mid-1910s. Any hat that resembles the soft felt version is also usually called a fedora, including straw and twill ones. Similar hats with a C-crown (with an indentation for the head in the top of the crown) are occasionally called fedoras. It is usually worn by men, but ladies' versions can also be found. Line drawing of a fedora. ... Line drawing of a fedora. ... Felt was also the name of a 1980s UK Indie band. ... Jump to: navigation, search There are many different styles of hats A hat is an item of clothing which is worn on the head – a kind of headgear. ... // Events and trends Technology Gideon Sundback patents the first modern zipper Harry Brearley invents stainless steel Charles P. Strite invents first pop-up bread toaster Science Einsteins theory of general relativity Max von Laue discovers the diffraction of x-rays by crystals Alfred Wegener puts forward his theory of... Straw is the dry stalk of a cereal plant, after the nutrient grain or seed has been removed. ... Categories: Stub | Textiles | Weaving ...

The popularity of the fedora has resulted in being able to purchase one in nearly any style. Fedoras can be found in nearly any color imaginable, but black, grey, and tan/brown are the most popular and universal.

In traditional courtesy, when a man doffs this hat (women did not tip their hats), he would often grasp a fedora by placing his thumb in one of the pinched indentations at top front and at least two fingers on the other side.

In Europe a fedora is also called a trilby. They typically have a shorter, "stingy" brim and the back of the brim is distinctively more sharply upturned as a result. World map showing Europe (geographically) When considered a continent, Europe is the worlds second-smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ... A trilby or trilby hat is a soft felt mens hat with a narrow brim and a deeply indented crown. ...

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Famous uses

The fedora was worn mostly in the early part of the twentienth century within urban industrialized settings as a stylish way to protect from the wind and weather while being compact enough to deal with the newer technologies such as the automobile. It is often associated with Prohibition-era mafia and tops off most zoot suits. Jump to: navigation, search Prohibition was any of several periods during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Mafia, also referred to in Italian as La Cosa Nostra (variously translated as This Thing Of Ours or Our Thing), is the name for a secret criminal organisation which evolved in mid-19th century Sicily, and led to an offshoot on the East Coast of... A zoot suit A zoot suit is a mans suit with wide-legged, tight-cuffed, or pegged, trousers (called tramas); and a long coat with wide lapels, and wide, padded shoulders (called the carlango). ...

Notable wearers

• Chip from Disney's 1989 children's cartoon Rescue Rangers, wore a fedora as a trademark.
• 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.
• Michael Jackson dons the hat as one of his trademarks.
• Indiana Jones has a signature fedora with a safari style brim as part of his adventuring costume.
• 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 or Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past.
• Run-DMC, the rap crew, wore black fedoras.
• Many Ultra Orthodox Jews wear black fedoras.
• 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.
• Larry Campbell, the 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.
• The Red Hat logo features a red fedora on its Shadow Man logo. In addition, the Red Hat community-oriented distribution of Linux is called Fedora.
• Carmen Sandiego almost always in appears in a red trench coat with a matching fedora
• The newsreader Forté Agent uses a person wearing a fedora as logo and icon.
• Tom Landry, Dallas Cowboys NFL coach
• Freddy Krueger, the fictional dream mass-murderer is noted for wearing this hat, along with a Christmas-colored 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.
• Matt Drudge of Drudge Report fame.
• Tex Murphy, the fictional gumshoe of the 2040´s.
• Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, leader of the Chabad Hasidim made this hat especially popular among his followers, and in the Jewish Yeshiva world in general.
• Adam Savage of the television show MythBusters has worn one in some appearances

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