Esquire- the grab-it hat

[thunderw21]

From the October 1956 issue of Esquire: the grab-it hat.

This goes along jimmy's thread about the nonchalance block:
http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=32727

 

[handlebar bart]

Horrible If someone tries that style their hat collection should be confiscated[huh]

 

[thunderw21]

Horrible If someone tries that style their hat collection should be confiscated[huh]

Calling bolthead!

 

[handlebar bart]

Calling bolthead!

lol lol lol

 

[GWD]

Calling bolthead!

LMAO! Too Funny lol

 

[Fletch]

A hat designed first and foremost to be taken off. This was truly the beginning of the end.

 

[ScionPI2005]

That's sort of like a built in handle...

 

[jimmy the lid]

Unreal. I love this stuff.

Cheers,
JtL

 

[Flitcraft]

Esquire must have really been lost after WWII- they seem to have been absolutely desperate to push new fashions for some reason- I just don't understand what the motivation was- unless they were receiving kickbacks from clothing manufacturers[huh] ???

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

The asymmetrical aspect is bizarre. I expected the handle would be in front, but this is clearly a left handed model. Would they have made both a left and a right handed version? [huh]

 

[Feraud]

Esquire must have really been lost after WWII- they seem to have been absolutely desperate to push new fashions for some reason- I just don't understand what the motivation was- unless they were receiving kickbacks from clothing manufacturers[huh] ???

Perhaps it was conscious/unconscious drive to leave the war years behind.
Or a longing for the future.

 

[Lefty]

As found in another article, I think that part porkpie + part fedora = porkedora.

(forkpie just doesn't do it for me)

 

[Feraud]

Porkedora sounds like a Pokemon character.

 

[Lefty]

I was thinking that it sounds like Miss Piggy as a either a princess or a superhero. "Princess Porkedora" and "Porkedora to the rescue" just sound good to me. lol

 

[Fletch]

Fed-pie. Who doesn't like to be fed pie?

Porkedora = a chorus line dressed as pigs, à la The Florodora Girls.

 

[Sefton]

It comes in bluish,brown,and greenish. I guess brownish would remind you too much of the fact that your hat looks like a piece of....