Huge Black Fedora

[Edward]

I would agree that it's not truly "huge" if we look at the bigger picture. I view it as "huge" in the context of it being a pre-1950s dress hat, as it's a good half inch larger than most other hats I see from this time, both in its brim width and its crown height.

People say the strangest things. It's an interesting and puzzling look into the general zeitgeist of our time, when we see what sorts of things people say about our attire. I have certain garments in my 1930s-40s wardrobe that, time and again, each receive the same comments, in a kind of pattern. A gray pinstriped suit that always makes people say "Gomez Addams," a 1930s dark navy suit that makes people say "Barron Trump" (likely due to combination with my slicked back hair), etc etc.

The most interesting one I had was a black leather trench coat, around 1999-2005. Anyone who commented on it in the street only ever had one of two comments. If they were over forty , it was "Herr Flick of the Gestapo" (a character in BBC sitcom Allo Allo); under forty, it was invariably "Oi, Neo! Oi, Matrix!" Reference points are interesting like that. A man on the street once looked at my fedora and said "Hey, John Wayne, where's your horse?" I removed the hat with a flourish to reveal my shaved head and replied "no, Yul Brynner."