I know some Af-Am guys who really rock hats from the trilby-Fedora-porkpie category. For some reason it works for them and has the opposite effect on most white guys (purely IMHO/YMMV/Pass Go Collect $200).
For the love of all hypothetical deities, if you have a broad face you need to balance that with a broad brimmed hat.
Hipsters aren’t known to be terribly tech savvy. Probably the opposite, including a devotion to Apple because it’s user friendly. Don’t think there’s any hipster association with Linux.
Here’s how it came to be associated with atheism. If you do a google search for AA Lewis, he’s wearing a fedora in his picture.
O there was, there certainly was. Not now, because the communities have grown in different directions, but universities were definitely full of hip cool unshaven coffee-drinking bicycle-riding whole-food-buying CS types (and wannabees) who wouldn’t be seen dead using MS products,
I’m not sure that is the origin. I don’t doubt the atheist connection, but I think this may have a separate origin. What I remembered were a lot of socially clueless nerds wearing them. While nerdery went mainstream, that fashion didn’t, and got associated with the “Nice Guy.”
That said, if there is a connection, there is also another less savory connection between atheists and misogynist, unfortunately. There was a move from many prominent atheists to become anti-feminist NRAs, and even led to the formation of Gamergate, which then led to the alt-right. That’s not to say that atheism is to blame, but it did happen. So there could be a connection there.
That said, I don’t associate it with the alt-right or even MRAs, really. It is mostly an incel thing, who many MRAs even will make fun of.
…ASIDE from baseball caps…? A baseball cap is the epitome of unfashionable. Baseball players look dorkie in them, ordinary citizens even more so.
Dan
The Homburg has always been associated with the “fat cat” class. Bankers wear Homburgs.
Back in the Hat Days, normal dudes wore Fedoras. The Trilby looked a little informal.
When I was in my late thirties, I told my old man I was in the market for a plain black porkpie. He shook his head — he had been a hat wearer back in the Hat Days — and said “porkpies are for younger men.”
This is all ridiculous. You either look good in a hat or not. And there’s nothing wrong with baseball caps, they’re simple utilitarian hats, like any other hat they have to work with the individual and attire and situation, but they work fine in virtually any informal situation.
Another issue with fedoras and non-baseball hats generally is that too many people buy the cheap stiff ones. A good felt hat has a certain natural drape to it. The difference between a $30 hat and a $100 hat is much like that between a Yugo and a decent midlevel sedan.
Believe it or not, I first noticed this in the ST:TOS episode, “A Piece Of The Action”. In close-ups of Kirk and Spock in their vintage gangster attire, you can see the thick felt material of the brims. Paramount’s wardrobe department must have had some fine quality clothing on its racks…
Strange thread. I almost always wear a hat (or tuque) either to protect my bald pate from the sun or from the cold. Not on summer evenings but almost always otherwise. And I don’t care whether I look good in a hat or not.
I have never owned a fedora. But my father (b. 1906) would never leave the house without his. A different era. I have no idea why incels are associated with them.
Oh…oh…me ears are alight!
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