# What's with all the mini-fedoras these days? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 18, 2010, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-mini-fedoras-these-days/547165 "2010-07-18T22:22:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-mini-fedoras-these-days/547165/1 "2010-07-18T22:22:50Z")
I’m talking about the short-brimmed fedoras like [this one](http://www.ansommag.com/images/article/1244485629558_f1_2.jpg), 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? ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-mini-fedoras-these-days/547165/2 "2010-07-18T22:25:55Z")
Never mind. I misidentified. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-mini-fedoras-these-days/547165/3 "2010-07-18T22:32:02Z")
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. I cannot speak to the coolness factor. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-mini-fedoras-these-days/547165/4 "2010-07-18T22:49:51Z")
when it gets cooler and the guys shift out of [wife-beaters and skater-boi shorts](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3513/3733916931_d640c35301_o.jpg), will they wear them for yet another season with flimsy hoodies, skinny jeans and Chuck Taylors? ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-mini-fedoras-these-days/547165/5 "2010-07-18T22:54:39Z")
Porkpie hats. They’re big with hipsters. I asked about them a while back. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-mini-fedoras-these-days/547165/6 "2010-07-18T22:58:24Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Porkpie hats. They’re big with hipsters. I asked about them a while back. I thought porkpie hat were flat topped rather than pinched in the OP image? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-mini-fedoras-these-days/547165/7 "2010-07-18T23:31:41Z")
Hats are coming back. That can only be good. I love wearing a hat. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-mini-fedoras-these-days/547165/8 "2010-07-18T23:39:02Z")
Hipsters in funny hats, they’re not all pricks but most of 'em are. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-mini-fedoras-these-days/547165/9 "2010-07-19T00:20:24Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-mini-fedoras-these-days/547165/10 "2010-07-19T00:30:50Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-mini-fedoras-these-days/547165/11 "2010-07-19T03:20:47Z")
I thought if it looked like a fedora with a skinny brim, it was a [trilby](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilby). I could be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-mini-fedoras-these-days/547165/12 "2010-07-19T03:43:16Z")
‘Stingy’ is a hat with a narrow brim. A trilby can be stingy, as can a porkpie. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-mini-fedoras-these-days/547165/13 "2010-07-19T04:38:21Z")
A trilby usually has a narrower brim, but what really distinguishes it is a higher crown, with a deeper dent, and a tighter pinch in the front. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-mini-fedoras-these-days/547165/14 "2010-07-19T04:48:13Z")
[Trilby](http://www.2oceansvibe.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/bailey-charcoal-corduroy-trilby-med.jpg) [Stingy brim trilby](http://www.equip.co.uk/new-york-hat-company-pinstripe-black-mens-trilby-hat_101.htm) ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-mini-fedoras-these-days/547165/15 "2010-07-19T04:54:50Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-mini-fedoras-these-days/547165/16 "2010-07-19T04:57:30Z")
It’s to help us identify douchey kids. I call them douchehats. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-mini-fedoras-these-days/547165/17 "2010-07-19T05:16:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-mini-fedoras-these-days/547165/18 "2010-07-19T05:18:16Z")
I thought I covered that. ?!? ---
**Author:** ![palacheck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a88e57/32.png) [@palacheck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palacheck)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-mini-fedoras-these-days/547165/19 "2010-07-19T10:13:36Z")
I wore hats when it _was_ hip to wear them: the 1960s. The hipsters wouldn’t look half-bad if they would just stop wearing the hats with JEANS! Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-mini-fedoras-these-days/547165/20 "2010-07-19T10:20:44Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > 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). Doesn’t “trendy” mean changing your style during and because of a trend? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-mini-fedoras-these-days/547165.md?page=2)