Or maybe they’re not all bowlers.
In this ep of The Beverly Hillbillies, starting around 1:52, Uncle Jed is wearing a somewhat roundish bowler with a flattish top.
But many bowlers are somewhat more longish, roundish on top, and often with a slightly upturned brim.
Are there different names for different styles, or are they all just bowlers with different stylistic nuances?
That looks like a Top Hat.
Just variations of a bowler hat, no distinct name.
It’s not a bowler if the top isn’t rounded.
I think they’ve taken something like a Homburg that is too small for him, and pushed out the crown. It’s too tall to be a Derby/Bowler, and doesn’t have enough brim to be Boss-of-the-Plains.
Also, the very flash feather marks it as a casual style – they’re really going for ‘ridiculous’, not for anything conservative.
Once again, it is a Top Hat. It is a very plain traditional top hat. Most people are used to the highly stylized versions, but that’s what a basic felt top hat looks like.
Best guess given the video quality: TriPolar is right. Plain ol’ top hat. Google photos of JFK at his inauguration — he was wearing a top hat of just about the same proportions.
re: the OP — Bowlers, also called derbies, were around for roughly a century, and the styles changed over time.
My favorite was from roughly the 1880s-90s, where the brim is curled up more at the sides than in the front and back, which makes the sides higher. What I mean is, when you set it on a table, the sides of the brim don’t touch the table, only the front and back do.
I can’t see that. Specifically, I can’t see a flat top. And I can’t see an edge. I see a round top.