I’m talking about the short-brimmed fedoras like this one, which I suppose is still just a fedora but needs to be distinguished from the longer-brimmed kind.
I went to a club last night (a very rare thing for me) and it seemed like 1 in 3 guys was wearing one of these stupid hats. There was a guy in one of my classes last semester that wore one of these all the time as well. It seems like a downright epidemic among young adult males. Is this just an L.A. thing or are they everywhere? Do people really think you’re cool if you wear one? Aren’t I automatically cooler for rejecting the status quo and not wearing one?
Seems to me the kids (young men) around here have been wearing them for a couple of years. My son keeps one in his car, mostly just wears it now and then for kicks.
when it gets cooler and the guys shift out of wife-beaters and skater-boi shorts, will they wear them for yet another season with flimsy hoodies, skinny jeans and Chuck Taylors?
Yes, a porkpie hat has a flat top and a relatively short crown. The hat in the OP is just a short-brimmed fedora, although some call that style “stingy.”
I wore porkpies before it was hip to wear them. (My brims aren’t so stingy, though. I’m too big for a stingy.) I don’t know whether I should keep wearing them and be taken for ‘trendy’, or not wear them until the trend passes (at which point I’ll look like an oldster trying to look young).
Actually, I don’t really give a crap what people think. So I’ll keep wearing them. (I think the patterned grey trilby tomorrow.)
I came back from Afghanistan and my neighborhood in DC has been overrun with hipsters in those hats. I love love love that the Target in Columbia Heights stocks them so they can buy their unique look in a big box store with underground parking.
It’s an ironic, caricatured lid. It’s meant for doodz who want to allude to the era of brimmed hat wearing, but who would never dream of being so unironic as to wear a grown-up hat with a brim that is anywhere near functional.
