Dobbs Savoy

[Tom Cooper]

Just received my Dobbs Savoy today. First time posting as well. Great forum! I have been wearing a Lagomarsino I bought in my wifes native Argentina, but got the bug to get deeper into the Fedora world after watching old vintage tv shows on fancast like Alfred Hitchcock. Everyone looked so cool back then and the hats never go out of style. Anyway, my question. The Dobbs Savoy seems to be a cross between a standard Fedora and a Homburg. Is this accurate? Is the Savoy a type of hat as well or is it like the Trilby, still a Fedora but a type. Really want to get into Homburgs. The Savoy looks more like a Homburg to me than a trad Fedora. Anyway, I love it. The saville blue is almost black. Can combine with a lot. My wife is going to kill me when little boxes start showing up on the porch again. I am a steel guitar player in Central Florida and collect steel guitars as well. Gotta look good playin the steel, so here I am. Thanks for the opportunity to post, TC

 

[rmrdaddy]

Great to "meet" you Tom! I don't know much about that particular hat, but you'lll probably get some good insight in a bit.
Oh yeah, you'll be getting boxes soon enough friend! We know a litttlllleeeee bit about enabling!

Welcome to the Lounge!

 

[Tom Cooper]

Took the liberty to tilt the front brim down. Now it looks like more the traditional Fedora look. I am still quite new at this. Still looks like a cross between a Fedora and a Homburg. Then again I don't yet own a Homburg so I'll have to wait till I have one to compare. TC

 

[Mickey D]

In doing a search, the Dobbs Savoy looks like a 2 3/8" snap brim.
Welcome to the forum, I'm also new and learning on a day to day basis.

 

[gtdean48]

Looks to be just a center dent crease on snap brim. A Homburg has the serious brim curl with wide edge binding & usually doesn't have side dents in the crown. This Dobbs just looks like a very conservative crease is all.

 

[R. L.]

Are Homburgs stiffer than Fedoras? They look to be so, but maybe just because of that brim curl...

 

[Cracker]

I went shopping today for my first fedora. A Dobbs Savoy was pretty much all they had in my size and color. It looked pretty good, but I decided to keep searching. Especially when the clerk said it was made of wool felt, not fur felt. Then got home and checked the store's website, which said it was fur felt. Not sure which is correct, but at this point I'll keep looking.

 

[Colonel seriously.]

Hello there and welcome to the lounge. This is a wonderful place to learn more about what I consider to be a gentleman’s necessity. With your kind permission, I will share some of the things I have learned here. First off, your new Dobbs “Savoy” is a very high quality hat. I have a Dobbs Savoy in mink brown. It’s one of my absolute favorites, right there with my Grey Stetson Temple. Both are full fur felt. The Savoy is a model of hat, like a Stetson “cattleman” or “open road”. Major hat makers all have different models, in various quality levels. If your Savoy says Golden Coach on the liner it’s a very high quality hat, being their top of the line fur felt. You are correct about the snap brim as well. Down is a more casual, classic look and up is a bit more hipster. As mentioned in a previous reply, the Homberg is a more formal style of hat, and has a tight rolled brim and only a center crease, without front dents. It is most usually worn with an English morning suit. The Savoy is a classic fedora, its style being relatively unchanged since the 1930s. It would look right at home sitting on top of Bogarts head as he leans in to kiss Bergman. A trilby is a type of fedora, characterized by a short brim, sometimes called a stingy brim and most often a teardrop crown crease. This style of hat became more stylish in the late 50s to the early and mid 60s. Brim sizes have grown and shrunk with the times. Wide brim hats, popular in the 20s-late 40s began to shrink from 2 and 3/4 to the “stingy brim” hats with a brim of 1 and 1/2. The wide brim older style hats now are very collectible and vintage hats with wide brims are somewhat hard to find. What was old has now become new. I just hope polyester leisure suits don’t make a comeback.